[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: "Corps, home builder battle over cleanup of former Atlas missile site" (Firth, NE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps, home builder battle over cleanup of former Atlas missile site

By ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS
Lincoln Journal Star (NE)
June 17, 2013

FIRTH -- Home builder Dan Kadavy lives with fallout from the Cold War.

Groundwater beneath land he bought surrounding an old Atlas missile  
site near Firth is contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, which  
was used to clean missile fuel lines but causes health problems.

Kadavy, 56, said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers earlier gave the go- 
ahead to build houses there,  so for $20,000 in 1994, he bought 16  
acres to develop. He did not buy the underground silo sitting on four  
acres.

But the corps returned in 2005 with news Kadavy's water was  
contaminated with 67 parts per billion of TCE, or roughly 13 times  
what federal safety standards allow.

Responsibility for the cleanup rests with the corps, but it and  
Kadavy propose different solutions with vastly different time frames.

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For the entire article, see
http://journalstar.com/news/local/corps-home-builder-battle-over- 
cleanup-of-former-atlas-missile/article_dd2bfd35- 
f59f-5bc7-86e2-990207d14ac9.html

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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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