[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FUDS: Atlas missile site, Cheyenne, Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military's pollution cleanup plan a gamble, scientists say

By Bill McCarthy
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
January 26, 2010

CHEYENNE - State scientists are concerned that military engineers are 
leaning toward a cleanup plan for Cold War-era pollution southwest of 
the city that is a gamble.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is creating a feasibility study toward 
cleanup of trichloroethylene (TCE) in groundwater at the city-owned 
Belvoir Ranch.

...

"Right now the corps is really leaning toward a pump-and-treat system in 
the middle of the plume," said Jane Francis on Tuesday at a meeting of 
community advisers.

...

There is a problem with a pump-and-treat system in the middle of the 
estimated 10-mile-long plume, however.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/01/27/local_news_updates/19local_01-27-10.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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