[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (OH) updates groundwater remedy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This appears to be an example of adaptive site management or  
transition assessment. From online sources, it appears that Wright- 
Patterson performed a Remedial Process Optimization at an area where  
pump-and-treat was losing its effectiveness, even though the remedy  
was deemed "protective" in the latest five-year review. Does anyone  
have details of the new treatment system? - LS]

WPAFB seeks to abandon 175 wells by 2019
Plans call to install new groundwater treatment system


By Barrie Barber
Dayton Daily News (OH)
March 18, 2015

FAIRBORN - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base expects to abandoned  
dozens of groundwater monitoring wells over the next five years  
because they are no longer needed to detect plumes of underground  
contamination, a base official said.

The base has more than 500 monitoring wells and most will remain when  
the others are abandoned, according to Treva A. Bashore, manager of  
the installation restoration program. The Ohio Environmental  
Protection Agency has given the go-ahead to abandon the wells, but  
the U.S. EPA must first sign off on the agreement, also, she said.

The first batch of 35 wells in Area A near Skeel Road would be  
abandoned this summer, and then 35 more a year will be retired  
through 2019. Wright-Patterson will not abandon so-called “sentinel”  
boundary monitoring wells, she said.

...

On Wednesday, Bashore said the base plans to install a new, and less  
costly but equally effective groundwater treatment system to replace  
an aging system.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/wpafb-seeks-to-abandon-70- 
wells-by-2019/nkZWD/

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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