[CPEO-MEF] Former Marine landfill, Albany (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former landfill to get new life

Mr. Pat Fisher, MCLB Albany (GA)
Marines.com
May 25, 2006


MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE ALBANY, Ga.(May 25, 2006) -- A former 
landfill just west of the Indian Lake Refuge area here is being given a 
new life, thanks to a $3 million environmental restoration project.

According to officials at the Environmental Branch here, the project 
involves placing a 52-inch-thick soil and compost cover over the 28-acre 
site and then replanting it with grass and trees to slow down the 
infiltration of rainwater through buried contaminants and then into the 
groundwater. The landfill restoration project is in conjunction with 
another $4 million project to treat and monitor the base’s overall 
groundwater system.

Construction of the evapotranspiration cover, as it is called, will 
include 6,000 truckloads of fill being transported across the base to 
the site by way of the truck gate off Fleming Road.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/A750CEC08A50D0B085257179004C9109?opendocument

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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