[CPEO-MEF] MMR (MA) RDX cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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Lenny Siegel
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