[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, REGULATION: Natural attenuation at Otis Air Base (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base cleanup plan revised

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times
October 30, 2008

FALMOUTH - The Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment is 
changing the way it will clean up six groundwater plumes contaminated 
with solvents and fuel at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

Initially, the Air Force agreed to extract and treat groundwater 
contaminated with any amount of tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene 
and ethylene dibromide.

With the change announced yesterday, the Air Force will now allow the 
leading edges of the plumes in Hatchville, with concentrations within 
safe drinking water standards, to disperse naturally, a spokesman for 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.

"Previously, we said the Air Force had to get every drop of 
contamination out," EPA spokesman Jim Murphy said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081030/NEWS/810300315

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