[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, ENERGY DEPT.: C-400 Complex at Paducah, KY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Site cleared, DOE to investigate C-400 Complex in Paducah after groundwater contamination

By Amber Ruch
KFVS TV-12 News (MY)
April 22, 2020 

PADUCAH, Ky. (KFVS) - Before COVID-19 restrictions, crews removed equipment from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Paducah site.

Above-ground equipment, pipelines, ventilation stacks and other infrastructure on the east and west sides of the C-400 Cleaning Building were removed to prepare the facility for future demolition.

Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, DOE’s deactivation and remediation contractor, also removed the northwest and southwest ventilation stacks, which were 135 feet tall, from the west side of the Building. It previously removed a treatment system on the east side of the building that was used to extract Trichloroethylene, or TCE, in 2010 and 2014.

The equipment removal also prepared the C-400 Cleaning Building for a planned environmental remedial investigation.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kfvs12.com/2020/04/22/site-cleared-doe-investigate-c-complex-paducah-after-groundwater-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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