[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Wyoming officials call for timeout on missile silo cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wyoming officials call for timeout on missile silo cleanup


By JOAN BARRON
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
October 9, 2013

CHEYENNE - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will honor a state  
request to temporarily halt the cleanup of groundwater contamination  
at an abandoned Atlas missile site west of Cheyenne.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality called for the  
timeout pending the collection of data to determine the exact  
location and movement of the underground contamination plume, which  
some people fear threatens the city’s water supply.

Kevin Frederick is the director of the DEQ’s Water Quality Division.  
He said the agency met with corps officials at least a year ago to  
express concerns about how the corps proposed to deal with the  
pollution.

"They seemed to us to be intent on finalizing a remedy that involved  
installing a hydraulic interceptor series of pumping wells roughly in  
the middle of the groundwater plume," Frederick said.

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For the entire article, see
http://trib.com/business/wyoming-officials-call-for-timeout-on- 
missile-silo-cleanup/article_5cf278a0-6e7d-56bf-861f-c3a9ad3decff.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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