[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Old missile sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution an enduring legacy at old ICBM sites

By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
October 10, 2009

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary 
of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United 
States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still 
grappling with another legacy - groundwater pollution from chemicals 
used to clean and maintain the weapons.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is identifying and cleaning up dozens 
of former nuclear missile sites in nine states.

To date, the corps has spent $116 million at 44 former Atlas and Titan 
intercontinental ballistic missile sites and 19 former Nike 
anti-aircraft missile sites from the early Cold War. The ICBM sites 
include 14 in Kansas, 10 in Nebraska, seven in Wyoming, seven in 
Colorado and two in Oklahoma. California, New Mexico, New York and Texas 
have one contaminated ICBM site each.

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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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