[CPEO-MEF] Deep Creek (WA) Air Force connection?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

If not Army missiles, did Air Force missiles contaminate Deep Creek?

John Langeler
KXLY TV News 4 (Spokane, WA)
July 27, 2007

SPOKANE -- While a recently released Army Corps of Engineers report 
rejects the EPA’s belief that former Army missile sites aren’t the 
source of groundwater pollution, maybe the EPA wasn’t asking about the 
right missiles.

Throughout the investigation into the contamination in the Deep Creek 
area west of Spokane, the EPA has focused its attention on an old 
surface-to-air missile battery known as Fairchild Nike 87, which was 
operated by the Army in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.

However, at no time during the investigation into groundwater 
contamination did either the EPA or the Army Corps of Engineers look 
into other missile sites in the area run by the Air Force, specifically 
several Atlas ICBM sites, one of which is located near Reardan.

The Atlas-E missile sites, of which there are nine in the Inland 
Northwest, were operated between 1961 and 1965 by the 567th Strategic 
Missile Squadron based out of Fairchild Air Force Base.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.kxly.com/news/?sect_rank=2&section_id=560&story_id=13165

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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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