[CPEO-MEF] Progress report on Utah former defense sites cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup of military waste on right track
Nine abandoned Utah sites have been cleared so far

By Judy Fahys 
The Salt Lake Tribune
July 4. 2005

Patches of Utah held underground tanks that refueled World War II
military trucks. Whole ranges served as experiment stations for testing
toxic nerve gases or rock-busting explosives. 

Abandoned military sites like these have been a focus of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers for two decades. Nearly 60 in Utah were deemed likely
to hold bomb fragments, toxic waste and other worrisome wartime
leftovers. 

"Their focus was winning the war," said the Corps' Jerry Vincent, whose
agency hosted a recent open house on the sites at Utah Department of
Environmental Quality headquarters. "Now, our focus is cleaning up what
they did." 

The Corps gave a progress report last week on nearly three dozen sites
in northern Utah. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_2839050

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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