[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Ft. Detrick and Rialto site proposed for "Superfund"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. EPA has proposed adding two more military sites to the "Superfund" 
Nation Priorities List:

Ft. Detrick's largely undeveloped Area B TCE/PCE groundwater 
contamination, Frederick, Maryland. This is not the part of the base 
where "biological defense" research, such as work with anthrax, is being 
conducted. See http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1782.htm

The former Rialto Ammunition Support Point, Rialto, California. This is 
listed as the B.F. Goodrich site because the Army shut down its facility 
immediately after World War II, before the principal groundwater 
contaminant, perchlorate, was in widespread military use. The storage 
"igloos" from Army days attracted businesses using or making 
pyrotechnics, explosives, and propellants. See 
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1790.htm.

For more information, see
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/newprop.htm


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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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