[CPEO-MEF] Dover Air Force Base (DE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base in final cleanup phase; Groundwater contamination to be eliminated

By Drew Volturo
Delaware State News
January 30, 2006

DOVER - Mention the phrase Superfund site and the first image that often 
springs to mind is a toxic waste dump or a rank landfill.

A vision of Dover Air Force Base doesn’t quite fit, but the military 
installation has been on the Environmental Protection Agency's list for 
more than 15 years with 59 environmental contamination sites.

Many of those sites, scattered throughout the base, have been cleaned up 
in the past decade and the base is moving into the final round of site 
cleanup, said Joanne Deramo, environmental restoration program manager 
for the base.

"We are working on the last of the 59 sites," Ms. Deramo said. "All 
others have gone through the process and are either cleaned up or are in 
the process of being cleaned."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newszap.com/articles/2006/01/30/dm/central_delaware/dsn03.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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