[CPEO-MEF] Nike missile-type pollution near Spokane (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nike missile-type pollution found in Hutterite wells near Spokane

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
June 1, 2006

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Pollution has been found in 19 water wells on property 
owned by Hutterite families in the Deep Creek area, and environmental 
experts say the source appears to be a Cold War-era missile battery.

Three toxic chemicals have been found in the wells west of Spokane near 
Riverside State Park, one a common military engine degreaser and the 
other two typically found in rockets such as those in Nike anti-aircraft 
guided missiles, Environmental Protection Agency officials said.

"The combination of these three chemicals is fairly unique," an EPA 
remedial project manager, Harry Craig, told The Spokesman-Review. "The 
only places that I've seen that is at rocket motor facilities" in 
California and at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Hutterite_Pollution.html

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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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