[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Bluegrass Depot (KY) discharges

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Documents raise wastewater concerns at Ky. depot

By JEFFREY McMURRAY/Associated Press
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
December 30, 2009

Water used to clean explosives overflowed twice at a Kentucky Army 
depot, and a worker was told to dump rainwater that collected in another 
part of the depot into the sewer, according to a report obtained by an 
environmental watchdog.

The Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility 
[PEER] says the years-old documents it recently received from the Army 
raise concerns about the spillage and dumping of potentially 
contaminated wastewater.

The heavily redacted documents detail Army investigators' interviews 
with a Kentucky environmental regulator and a worker at the chemical 
weapons storage site at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond. They were 
posted last week on the watchdog group's site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kentucky.com/513/story/1077460.html

For the PEER release and background documents go to
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1288

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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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