[CPEO-MEF] CHROMIUM: "Mother lode of chromium at Hanford [WA] excavated"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mother lode of chromium at Hanford excavated

by Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
May 31, 2014


The largest source of chromium contamination near the Columbia River  
at Hanford has been removed after workers dug up contaminated soil  
down to groundwater 85 feet deep.

Over the years Hanford officials had talked about finding the mother  
lode of chromium in the soil that was contaminating groundwater near  
the former D and DR Reactors and then the river, said Mark French,  
Department of Energy project director for the work.

"Once we started digging, it became obvious this was it," he said. It  
was the largest source of chromium contamination near the Columbia  
River, he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/05/31/2997843/mother-lode-of- 
chromium-at-hanford.html?sp=/99/900/

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