2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Annniston Army Depot (AL) - day 2
 
Army working to remove depot degreaser: TCE possibly twice as toxic as arsenic

By Jeremy Cox
Anniston Star (AL)
September 1, 2008

The Army has been trying for three decades to solve a problem: a 27-million-pound plume of solvent waste, called trichloroethylene, leaking into the groundwater that feeds Coldwater Spring, Anniston's main source of drinking water.

Since 1978, the Army has spent millions of dollars to dig it up, pump it out of the groundwater and break it up with hydrogen peroxide injected underground. These efforts have removed tons of contaminated water and clay, most notably in areas of the Anniston Army Depot where for decades workers dumped the acid-like waste into unlined ponds and trenches.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/showcase/2008/as-open-0901-0-8i01a2831.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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