[CPEO-MEF] Army Corps says Deep Creek (WA) pollution not from missile site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps rejects blame for pollution
It says chemicals in wells didn't come from missile site

If you go

What: Spokane Regional Health District and Washington Department of 
Health officials and a University of Washington physician who is an 
expert in toxic chemicals will be available to answer health questions 
regarding the Deep Creek-area contamination

When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday

Where: First floor auditorium, Spokane Regional Health District, 1011 W. 
College Ave.

Kevin Graman
Staff writer
August 23, 2006

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers does not accept responsibility for 
toxic chemicals found in numerous wells near a former U.S. Defense 
Department missile site on the West Plains because the contamination 
could have come from other sources, a corps spokesman said.

The corps' position was spelled out in a May 26 letter to the 
Environmental Protection Agency's Seattle office. On Tuesday, the letter 
was made available to The Spokesman-Review, which previously had 
reported the corps "has not yet determined whether it is responsible" 
for contamination of groundwater near Fairchild Defense Area Nike 
Battery 87.

"In fact, the corps has made a determination," Steven Cosgrove, the 
corps' public information officer in Seattle, said in an e-mail to the 
newspaper on Tuesday. "The corps has determined that, based on 
information available to date, the data are inconsistent with the Nike 
87 site being the source of the contaminants found in the area around 
Euclid Road."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=146016

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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