[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Cheyenne (WY) missile-site TCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Geological info needed to figure out what will work
Missile site cleanup to be studied

JOAN BARRON
Casper Star-Tribune (WY) as printed in Billings Gazette (MT)
March 20, 2010

CHEYENNE - State scientists will meet with a team from the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers on Wednesday to discuss a feasibility study governing 
cleanup of contamination from an abandoned Cold War missile site near 
Cheyenne.

The corps' feasibility study submitted in December examines different 
ways to clean up the site, said Jane Francis, a geological supervisor 
with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.

"Before we put the cleanup system in we need to collect a little more 
additional information on the hydrology and geology out there," Francis 
said.

The corps has proposed a pump-and-treat system in the middle of the 10- 
to 14-mile-long plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) in groundwater to cut 
off the contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_36d9bed8-3498-11df-9300-001cc4c03286.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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