[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Atlas Missile Site No. 4, Cheyenne, Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More data needed to assess groundwater contamination, cleanup

by Trevor Brown
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
May 21, 2105
CHEYENNE - 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.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2015/05/22/news/20local_05-22-15.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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