[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Radford Army Ammunition Plant (VA) permit pending

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA considers cleanup permit for Radford arsenal

Agency officials say most of the known contamination at the Radford  
arsenal is gone or harmless.

By Laurence Hammack

Roanoke Times (VA)
May 29, 2011

An acid wastewater lagoon. A red water ash burial ground. A TNT  
wastewater treatment unit. An asbestos disposal trench.

Those are just a few of the areas at the Radford Army Ammunition  
Plant identified in a recent government report.

Despite their ominous-sounding names, many of the former dumping  
grounds for hazardous waste no longer pose a threat to human health  
or the environment, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection  
Agency.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/288128

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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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