2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Jan 2007 01:20:35 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MMR (MA) RDX cleanup
 
Army moves to oust RDX

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
January 29, 2007


SANDWICH - Army officials plan to use a small, portable groundwater treatment system to clean explosives flowing under the ground toward Sandwich, they announced last week.

The plume of Royal Demolition Explosives, or RDX, up to 290 parts per billion in preliminary results, was discovered along the boundary of the Massachusetts Military Reservation and the town of Sandwich in summer 2005.

Army leaders want to move a portable treatment system from one base plume to this plume at the end of May, Army Groundwater Study Program head Kent "Hap" Gonser said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/armymoves29.htm

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