[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Quantico Marine Corps Base (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military offers cleanup plans


By RUSTY DENNEN
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (VA)
November 27, 2010

Final cleanup plans for three Superfund sites at Marine Corps Base 
Quantico will be discussed at a public meeting next month.

The Navy, Environmental Protection Agency and Virginia Department of 
Environmental Quality will host the session on Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7 
p.m. in Room 147 of the Alfred M. Gray Research Center.

The cleanup areas include site 96, a 1.6-acre tidal marsh north of 
Turner Field; site 99, a semi-circular inlet of about 190 acres along 
the Potomac River; and site 100, four parcels along Chopawamsic Creek.

Placed on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1994, the 
56,000-acre Marine Corps base, which straddles Stafford, Prince William 
and Fauquier counties, has been cleaning up pollution on dozens of 
sites. Contaminants include gun solvents, explosives, heavy metals and 
toxic chemicals caused by nearly a century of military training.

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For the entire article, see
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/112010/11272010/590883

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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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