[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Northern Colorado missile sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Colorado missile sites nearing end of remediation plans
Wyoming still waits for plan to address larger plume


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

While Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality officials continue  
to push the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for answers at two former  
Atlas missile sites surrounding Cheyenne, neighboring Colorado is in  
the final stages of cleanup at its three contaminated sites.

The three sites, contaminated by operations conducted in the 1960s,  
are located in north-central Colorado, near Greeley and Fort Collins.  
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials say  
remediation actions at the sites will be completed within a decade.

Contamination at the Colorado is much lower than that of Wyoming's  
Atlas Missile Site No. 3. The Colorado sites average a contamination  
level of 3,600 parts per billion trichlorethylene. At Site No. 3 in  
Wyoming, levels have reached more than 31,000 parts per billion.

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For the entire article, see
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/colorado-missile-sites- 
nearing-end-of-remediation-plans/article_20e239e7-46be-58bb- 
a5a2-12888e9d5c7a.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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