[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Lead-contaminated soil to be removed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst" (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lead-contaminated soil to be removed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
The project on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has been in the works for 20 years. Some 5,180 toms of contaminated soil will be removed from the installation.

By Lisa Broadt
Burlington County News (NJ)
July 26, 2019 
 
WRIGHTSTOWN - A major step forward in environmental cleanup at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will begin later this month with the removal of lead-contaminated soil.

The $1.96 million project on the McGuire part of the sprawling installation comes 20 years after the property was added to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List.

The work includes remediation of a former skeet-shooting range where the lead-contaminated soil currently presents an “unacceptable risk to human health and the environment,” the Air Force said in a project memorandum.

The former skeet range operated on 55.5 acres from 1943 to 1959. The contamination stems from the small-arms ammunition used at the range, according to the memo.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/20190726/lead-contaminated-soil-to-be-removed-from-joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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