[CPEO-MEF] Anniston Depot (AL) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Strategies sought for TCE cleanup project in Anniston

WILLIAM THORNTON
Birmingham News (AL)
September 17, 2007

Agencies looking at a potentially 1,000-year environmental cleanup 
project in Anniston still are working on how to take the first step.

Members of the Anniston Army Depot's Restoration Advisory Board agreed 
last week to go back to the drawing board in an effort to clean up high 
levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, at the depot. It could be another 
six months before the board's members settle on a solution.

TCE was used for several decades at the base to remove grease from metal 
equipment, such as tanks, and then disposed of in ditches and lagoons, 
eventually entering the groundwater. It is still used at the depot with 
small arms, but in greatly reduced quantities, said Patrick Smith, the 
depot's environmental engineer.

...

Scott Hughes, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental 
Management, said U.S. Army studies have identified an area of 
groundwater about a mile long and a half-mile wide that is contaminated 
with varying levels of TCE.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1190017426191180.xml&coll=2

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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
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