[CPEO-MEF] Lockheed Martin begins testingTallevast, FL water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tallevast water testing begins
Lockheed Martin must now determine the extent of contamination at the
site of its plant

SCOTT RADWAY
Bradenton Herald (FL)
November 9, 2004

TALLEVAST - Lockheed Martin on Monday began hauling in truck-mounted
drill rigs and stainless-steel hand tools as officials move to pinpoint
the industrial groundwater contamination that has shaken this small community.

The drilling and probing is part of a state Department of Environmental
Protection consent order, which has bound Lockheed to identify the exact
extent of the contamination and remove it.

"Once we confirm the size and depth of the (contamination) plume, it can
help us select the best clean-up method," said Meredith Rouse Davis, a
Lockheed senior manager.

The community was first shocked in November 2003 when they learned of
potential risk of exposure to carcinogens that escaped from the former
American Beryllium Co. plant. The ABC plant operated from 1961 to 1996;
no one knows when the contamination first entered into the groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/10138997.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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