[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Wyoming Atlas Missile site plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

3 solutions eyed for pollution west of Cheyenne

Casper Star Tribune (WY)
July 29, 2009

The Army Corps of Engineers has developed three possible solutions for a 
10-mile-long underground plume of solvent that leaked from an abandoned 
missile site west of Cheyenne.

The options were outlined at a Tuesday meeting.

One calls for building a new treatment system at a city water plant. 
Another involves building the treatment system and drilling wells to 
extract the solvent, known as TCE, which breaks down when exposed to 
sunlight. Once the water is clean, it would be reinjected into the ground.

The third option calls for the treatment system and wells along with 
cleaning up the missile site by pumping out the solvent or destroying it 
in place with microbes or a chemical compound.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/07/29/ap-state-wy/wy_missile_site_pollution.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
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