[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FUDS: Cheyenne (WY) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials seek solutions to Cheyenne water contamination

By JARED MILLER
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
April 17, 2009

CHEYENNE -- State and federal officials today will discuss strategies to 
help eliminate traces of a toxic industrial solvent that seeped into a 
key source of Cheyenne drinking water.

The city shut down one of its municipal wells in December after tests 
revealed elevated levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, which is a 
non-flammable solvent used from the 1960s to the '80s to remove oil and 
grease from metal parts.

The sources of the contamination is believed to be an abandoned nuclear 
missile site near Cheyenne, where the military dumped the chemical into 
open pits during Cold War training exercises, according to the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/04/16/news/wyoming/b2fb13593fc609258725759a0083c744.txt

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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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