[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Tipton Airport landfills, Ft. Meade (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report: Army needs to monitor old landfills

By PAMELA WOOD
Annapolis Capital (MD)
August 14, 2011

The Army should continue to monitor old landfills at Tipton Airport  
and keep people away from them, according to a new review.

As part of the extensive environmental cleanup at Fort George G.  
Meade, the plans for the old landfills at the airport - which once  
belonged to the Army - are up for review.

The airport area has three inactive landfills on it, including one  
that sits underneath the runway.

The 366-acre airport facility was transferred from the Army to the  
Anne Arundel County government in 1999 as part of a previous base  
realignment and closure process.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2011/08/15-25/Report-Army- 
needs-to-monitor-old-landfills.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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