[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Report finds current cleanup method at Cheyenne [WY] missile site inadequate"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report finds current cleanup method at Cheyenne missile site inadequate
Study on Army Corps of Engineers' work was sought by Wyoming DEQ

By TREVOR GRAFF
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
October 3, 2014

A recently released study commissioned by the Wyoming Department of  
Environmental Quality found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers'  
process for mitigating groundwater contamination at an Atlas missile  
site west of Cheyenne is inadequate.

Intera Geoscience and Engineering Solutions engineers say that by  
neglecting to fully characterize the source of the pollution at  
Missile Site 4, the corps is resorting to pumping water and treating  
it midway between the source zone and a Cheyenne water well field  
rather than at its source.

...

For the entire article, see
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/report-finds-current-cleanup- 
method-at-cheyenne-missile-site-inadequate/ 
article_278f2db8-526e-5e27-8102-a09048891ab1.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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