[CPEO-MEF] Anniston Army Depot (AL) groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Speaker’s Stand ... EPA responds to Star coverage

Opinion by Franklin Hill (U.S. EPA)
Anniston Star (AL)
October 4, 2007

Re “Can contaminated depot site be cleaned up?” (News article, Sept. 11):

The Star’s article mischaracterized the important steps the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency is taking to address contaminants 
in ground water at the Anniston Army Depot. The article implied that the 
EPA would essentially allow the cleanup at the depot to be abandoned if 
it would take more than a century to resolve. This is not the EPA’s 
position, which was not included or requested from this article.

The EPA has provided oversight of the groundwater cleanup since the 
early 1990s, including the upgrades to the existing treatment systems 
added in 2001 and the installation of air-strippers at Coldwater Spring. 
Though the amount of trichloroethylene (TCE) released is estimated to be 
very large and has proven difficult to clean up due to complex 
hydrogeology and a generally poor response to treatment, the EPA does 
believe that newer technologies exist that have promise to treat the TCE 
in ground water over a shorter time frame.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2007/as-letters-1004-speakout-7j03u3025.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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