[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) water treatment (RDX & perchlorate)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Treatment plant opens

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times
June 28, 2007

CAMP EDWARDS - The electricity is whirring at the Army's new groundwater 
treatment plant.

But the tainted water barely makes a whisper as it pulses through the 
$6.1 million facility - coming out clean at a rate of about 800 gallons 
per minute.

The treatment facility, which cleans a plume of explosives and 
perchlorate traveling toward Bourne, started pumping officially on 
Tuesday. It's the first long-term cleanup solution to a plume to be put 
into operation by the Army at Camp Edwards.

The groundwater, which serves as the primary source of drinking water 
for the Upper Cape, was contaminated by munitions burning and other 
disposal actions in the 1970s and 1980s.

The plume, which is 1,000 feet wide, contains Royal Demolition 
Explosives as high as 370 parts per billion and perchlorate as high as 
500 parts per billion, according to Kris Curley, spokesman for the 
Army's Impact Area Groundwater Study Program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS/706280318/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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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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