[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Wyoming's former missile sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work continues on cleaning up contaminated missile sites

By Trevor Brow
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
April 26, 201

CHEYENNE - Federal officials are slowly making progress on a long- 
term project to clean-up - or at least contain - groundwater  
contamination west of Cheyenne.



The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers updated the public Thursday on its  
efforts to study the contamination caused by chemicals that were used  
to clean 1960s-era missile sites.



During the 1990s, investigators discovered the presence of  
trichloroethylene, or TCE, in the groundwater near Belvoir Ranch,  
which was the former Atlas Missile Site No. 4.



For the past decade, officials have set up monitoring wells to study  
how a 10-mile plume of the chemical has spread and what risks it poses.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2013/04/26/news/20local_04-26-13.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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