[CPEO-MEF] EPA issues order at Ft. Meade (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 3
August 27, 2007
 	
EPA issues Order to Army at Fort Meade

PHILADELPHIA (August 27, 2007) - Today the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency ordered the Department of the Army to move forward with the 
cleanup of 14 hazardous waste sites on the Fort George G. Meade military 
base in Anne Arundel County, MD, and adjacent property previously 
transferred by the Army to the U.S. Department of Interior and now part 
of the Patuxent Research Refuge.

The order, issued under EPA's authority to address solid and hazardous 
wastes that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to 
health or the environment, requires the Army to assess the nature and 
extent of the contamination, and to determine and implement appropriate 
corrective measures.

The contaminants of concern include numerous solvents and heavy metals, 
explosives, arsenic and PCBs. Elevated levels of volatile organic 
compounds, pesticides and explosive compounds have been detected in 
aquifers. Low levels of volatile organic compounds, below health-based 
standards, have been detected in residential wells located in Odenton, MD.

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For the entire news release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bb1285e857b49ac4852572a00065683f/5a969270f928abbd852573440068dfd3!OpenDocument

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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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