[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Maguire Air Force Base - Fort Dix - Lakehurst (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental advisers say Dix cleanup efforts on track



by Michael Slade and James McClain
Air Force Center for Engineering and Environment
November 10, 2009

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- A team of Air Force and 
scientific experts announced the environmental cleanup program at Dix 
will meet or exceed Air Force standards.

The Dix environmental program is on track for early compliance with the 
Air Force goal of implementing "Remedy-in-Place" by 2012.

The program will focus on several small-arms munitions sites and secure 
approval to remove a landfill from the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency National Priority List. This will set the stage for negotiations 
with state officials to closeout cleanup efforts.

An Environmental Restoration Program Optimization expert review was 
conducted in July. The review is part of a unique program sponsored by 
the Air Force Center for Engineering and Environment.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.mcguire.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123177047

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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