[CPEO-MEF] VOCs , FORMER SITES: Atlas Missile Site No. 4, Cheyenne (WY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEQ wants Army Corps of Engineers to do more about the groundwater  
contamination west of Cheyenne



By Trevor Brown

Wyoming Tribune Eagle
September 19, 2013



CHEYENNE -- State officials and local residents want the federal  
government to do more to address contaminated groundwater west of  
Cheyenne.



The concerns were brought up Thursday during a meeting updating the  
public on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineersâ progress to clean up -  
or at least contain - the contamination caused by a 1960s-era missile  
site.



Investigators discovered the presence of trichloroethylene, or TCE,  
during the 1990s in the groundwater near Belvoir Ranch, which was  
F.E. Warren Air Force Baseâs former Atlas Missile Site No. 4.



Spilled chemicals that were used to clean the silo has created a  
groundwater contamination plume that extends for about 10 miles to  
the east.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2013/09/20/news/20local_09-20-13.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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