[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Moses Lake (WA) well sampling

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA asks Grant County to help start well sampling program
No commitment given by county

By Lynne Lynch
Columbia Basin Herald (WA)
May 14, 2008


EPHRATA - Officials with the federal Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) asked Grant County commissioners to help start a new well sampling 
program within an area inside a proposed Superfund cleanup site near 
Moses Lake.

Although the federal government would pay for the program that would 
sample wells for unacceptable concentrations of the solvent TCE in the 
Cascade Valley, the county appeared wary of committing to help with the 
program.

...

The groundwater and soil contamination was caused by TCE reaching the 
ground near the former Larson Air Force Base. TCE was being used to 
strip paint from airplanes, wash airplane parts and clean missile parts.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2008/05/14/news/news02.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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