[CPEO-MEF] Lockheed's long cleanup road in Tallevast, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Long road ahead for tainted Tallevast

Chris O'Donnell
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
June 10, 2007

TALLEVAST -- Cleaning up the majority of the polluted ground water in 
Tallevast could take 30 years, and getting it all could take a century, 
Lockheed Martin officials say.

But some experts fear that the Tallevast pollution will never be cleaned 
up completely.

Lockheed's plan is to build a series of wells and trenches from which it 
will pump millions of gallons of tainted ground water into a treatment 
system and then discharge it into the Manatee County sewer system.

Known as pump and treat, the method has been used at hundreds of 
polluted sites across the country. But some experts have become 
increasingly critical of the approach, saying it is inefficient and 
often fails to restore ground water in a reasonable time frame.

One critic is George Robinson, vice president of Oasis Nuclear and a 
former nuclear power plant operator who worked to clean up Three Mile 
Island nuclear plant after its partial meltdown in 1979.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070610/NEWS/706100360/1006/SPORTS

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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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