[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FUDS: Atlas missile site, Cheyenne, WY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Missile sites 'likely' source of water pollution

By JARED MILLER
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
December 11, 2008


CHEYENNE -- A new federal report provides the best evidence yet that a 
Cold War-era missile site near Cheyenne is the source of chemical 
contamination in the city's drinking water.

The report, released last week to some government officials, confirms 
the "likely" connection between a chemical used at the Atlas No. 4 
missile site west of town and contamination in city water wells.

"We have been able to confirm the probable connection between the source 
of the contamination and the wells," said Paul Johnston, public affairs 
officer for the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
which includes Cheyenne.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2008/12/11/news/wyoming/31c604c76c3473ca8725751d00099019.txt

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