2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:23:33 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Anniston Depot (AL) - day 4
 
The path to TCE: Well water

By Jeremy Cox
Anniston Star (AL)
September 4, 2008

In the tensest moment so far in the Anniston Army Depot's TCE drama, more than 100 angry residents faced down the Anniston Army Depot's environmental staff in the summer of 2002, demanding an answer to one question: Is our well water safe?

Six years later, that question remains unanswered.

For years, test wells just beyond the depot's southeast boundary showed, at most, only a trace amount of TCE in the groundwater below. Then, as if out of nowhere, three wells in March 2002 spiked to 150 parts per billion.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/showcase/2008/as-open-0904-0-8i04a0147.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
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