[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Ft. Detrick (MD) Superfund listing finalized

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
EPA Region 3
April 8, 2009


Fort Detrick Site Added to Superfund List




PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced 
the addition of the Fort Detrick Area B Ground Water Site in Frederick, 
Md. to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).

...

The Fort Detrick site was proposed for NPL listing in Sept. 2008. After 
reviewing information from a 60-day public comment period, EPA made the 
final decision on listing.

The parcel of land known as Fort Detrick Area Ground Water Area B is 
part of an active U.S. Army installation operated under the Army Medical 
Command. The site was used as a disposal area for chemical, biological, 
and radiological material from the 1940s until 1970. Wastes disposed at 
the site released trichloroethene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene (PCE) into 
the ground water, contaminating residential drinking water wells. There 
is the potential that the groundwater contamination could spread to 
areas that could affect the more densely populated areas in Frederick.

...

For the entire article, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/90829d899627a1d98525735900400c2b/bc5b9e0cd28c1f538525759200664d4f!OpenDocument

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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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