From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 22 May 2015 08:07:12 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Atlas Missile Site No. 4, Cheyenne, Wyoming |
More data needed to assess groundwater contamination, cleanup by Trevor Brown Wyoming Tribune Eagle May 21, 2105CHEYENNE - It will take millions of dollars and several more years before investigators know the extent of the damage caused by chemicals that have seeped into the groundwater at a 1960s-era missile site west of Cheyenne. Officials from the Army Corps of Engineers told members of the public Thursday that just the data-collection phase of the Atlas Missile Site No. 4 cleanup project will take at least two more years. And that is not counting the added time to come up with a plan to remove trichloroethylene, or TCE, from a 13-mile plume of contaminated groundwater or the work to actually remove the hazardous chemical, which is an endeavor that could take hundreds of years. ... For the entire article, see http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2015/05/22/news/20local_05-22-15.txt -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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