From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 27 Apr 2007 01:22:02 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts Military Reservation hydrology |
Costly Cape Cod cleanup has advanced groundwater hydrology research WebWire April 26, 2007The tale of the Cape Cod cleanup has all the elements of an epic novel: It's long. It offers intrigue, heroes and plot twists. And, of course, it changes the world. Denis LeBlanc, who has spent much of his career studying the hydrology of western Cape Cod, described in a talk on April 9 how the investigation into a single "plume" or tongue of contaminated water underground became a 25-year gold mine of hydrology research and fueled an ongoing effort to rid the Cape's groundwater of pollutants. "This is a very complicated and very expensive project involving hundreds of people. I'm going to tell one part of the story: how our understanding of the groundwater hydrology in Western Cape Cod has been shaped by this work," said LeBlanc, an MIT alumnus (S.M. 2001) and hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who presented the 2007 Freeman Lecture, hosted annually by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). ... For the entire article, see http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=34099 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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