[CPEO-MEF] TECHNOLOGY: Bioremediation at Defense Supply Center Richmond (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Microscopic Chemical-Eating Bugs Help DLA Clean, Protect Groundwater

By Stephen J. Baker, DLA Aviation Public Affairs
Midlothian Exchange
February 21, 2011


Some of nature's smallest helpers will be at the frontline of Defense  
Logistics Agency's continuing work to restore and protect the  
environment at Defense Supply Center Richmond according to a  
remediation plan and feasibility study published recently by DLA  
Installation Support’s Environmental Branch in Richmond.

The "OU-7 Proposed Plan and Feasibility Study" - created with support  
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Virginia  
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) - details the upcoming  
cleanup of a site known as Operable Unit 7, located in the south- 
central region of the installation.

According to study, the site served as a firefighting training area  
in the 1960s where flammable liquid chemicals and petroleum products  
were dumped into three separate and unlined training pits, ignited  
and extinguished during the training. Those activities, according to  
the study, are the most likely cause of groundwater degradation  
beneath the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.midlothianexchange.com/index.php/news/article/microscopic- 
chemical-eating-bugs-help-dla-clean-protect-groundwater/25068/


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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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