[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Anniston Army Depot (AL) TCE - day 5

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army's emergency TCE plan includes debit cards

By Jeremy Cox
Anniston Star (AL)
September 5, 2008

The Army's initial response to rising TCE levels in the Anniston area's 
primary drinking water supply was to draft an emergency plan and hope it 
never had to be used.

The unofficial decree from the Army's environmental headquarters in 
Aberdeen, Md., was, "We can't react unless there is a violation," said 
Pat Smith, the Anniston Army Depot's environmental engineer.

"The problem with the disaster plan is that it works for the Army 
because they don't live here," said Jim Miller, general manager of 
Anniston Water Works. "For us, it would have been the end of the world."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/showcase/2008/as-open-0905-0-8i04x5611.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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