[CPEO-MEF] Volunteer Ammo Plant (TN) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army facing $10 million to $80 million groundwater remedy
Friday,  -

By Pam Sohn
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
December 28, 2007


What may look like a massive mudpie-making process actually is an 
unusual pollution cleanup that nearly is complete at the 6,000-acre 
former Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant.

"There are good things going on there," said Nancy Boisvert, the 
Tennessee environmental regulator in charge of the 20-year, $85-million 
cleanup of the defunct explosives plant where TNT was made for World War 
II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

But even as long-armed scoops "stir" excavated dirt mixed with water and 
caustic soda to prompt chemical reactions and break down the soil 
pollutants, Ms. Boisvert and Army contractors are considering how to 
take the next and last clean-up step of decontaminating the groundwater.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesfreepress.com/absolutenm/templates/local.aspx?articleid=27419&zoneid=77

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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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