[CPEO-MEF] ARSENIC: Devens (MA) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Scope of landfill's tainted water to be clarified

By Don Eriksson
Nashoba Publishing (MA)
December 25, 2009

DEVENS -- The Army contractor working on remediation of arsenic-laden 
groundwater flowing from the Shepley Hill Landfill is developing a 
revised plan that focuses on deeper exploration in the Nonoacious Brook 
area and in Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove.

Marc Grant, program manager for AMEC, told the Restoration Advisory 
Board last week his firm is developing a two-phase approach that will 
better delineate the boundaries of an arsenic plume some 50 to 60 feet 
under West Main Street, Ayer, and fill in gaps in data for the pond.

Once the boundaries of the West Main Street plume are known, a permanent 
monitoring well will be drilled.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nashobapublishing.com/devens_news/ci_14069533

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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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