[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs - Cheyenne (WY) Atlas 4 Missile Site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Corps to take on TCE cleanup

By Baylie Davis
Cheyenne Tribune-Eagle (WY)
March 15, 2008

CHEYENNE -- The Army Corps of Engineers will apparently "do the right 
thing" when it comes to taking responsibility for treating one source of 
Cheyenne's drinking water for trichloroethylene, or TCE, which is a 
result of Cold War-era nuclear missile maintenance east of Cheyenne.

Paul Johnston, public affairs officer for the Omaha district of the Army 
Corps of Engineers, said the Corps is charged by the Department of 
Defense to administer the FUDS (formerly used defense sites) program.

That means taking care of a range of sites, "from missile sites to old 
training grounds to WWI and WWII bombing ranges and old munitions 
storage; the whole gamut," Johnston said.

But right now, the city is paying the $20,000 a year it takes to remove 
the TCE from the water before it arrives at residents' taps.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2008/03/16/local_news_updates/20local_03-16-08.txt

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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
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