[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CLEANUP: Brandywine Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brandywine DRMO site makes strides toward cleanup

By Pacifica Chehy
Capital Flyer (MD)
July 3, 2008

The 316th Civil Engineering Squadron’s Environmental Flight has made 
significant progress toward cleaning up the former Brandywine Defense 
Reutilization and Marketing Office site and its surrounding area.

"The restoration program assesses, investigates and addresses risk from 
historic releases of chemicals to the environment," said Brian Dolan, 
316 CES Environmental Flight chief. Mr. Dolan added, "Old storage tanks, 
old landfills, old fire training areas where fuel was dumped and set on 
fire so the firefighters could practice putting them out - all of these 
type of activities impacted the soil and some solvents leaked into the 
subsurface, including the groundwater. We are actively addressing all of 
these various issues on the base and in the surrounding area."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capflyer.com/stories/070308/news_20080703001.shtml

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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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