[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY DEPARTMENT: "DOE Marks Major Progress in Groundwater Cleanup Mission at Nevada Site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note that “Cleanup” doesn’t mean cleanup. - LS]

DOE Marks Major Progress in Groundwater Cleanup Mission at Nevada Site

Office of Environmental Management
U.S. Department of Energy
APRIL 29, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) environmental cleanup program has reached a significant milestone in its legacy cleanup mission at the Nevada National Security Site(NNSS), completing approximately half of the planned groundwater characterization activities.

The DOE Environmental Management program in Nevada recently completed groundwater characterization activities at the Rainier Mesa/Shoshone Mountain (RM/SM) section of the NNSS. The State of Nevada’s Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) approved DOE’s closure report on April 1.

With the earlier completion of work at Frenchman Flat, about half of all groundwater characterization areas at the NNSS have now reached the long-term monitoring stage.

“With Rainier Mesa/Shoshone Mountain now in long-term monitoring, we are nearly halfway to the safe, secure, and successful completion of our groundwater characterization mission at the NNSS,” said Todd Shrader, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Environmental Management.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/doe-marks-major-progress-groundwater-cleanup-mission-nevada-site

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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
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