[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Terry Ranch (WY) water project and Atlas D missile site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Part 3: Addressing concerns from Save Greeley’s… Water about the Terry Ranch project

By CUYLER MEADE 
Greeley Tribune (WY)
February 20, 2021

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the city’s decision on whether to approve the Terry Ranch project. It was originally intended as a two-part series but new information presented after the publication of Part 1 necessitated a third part. Part 1 is available here and Part 2 is available here.

The Greeley City Council will soon vote to endorse moving forward with an ambitious water project, called Terry Ranch, in which the city would purchase access to a massive aquifer under land near the Wyoming border. Some have serious concerns about this decision.

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SGW, via Paul Wood to the Tribune: There’s an old missile site in Wyoming, and it’s leaking trichloroethylene. It’s spreading and widening, and I know they claim they’ve done due diligence on the geology, but the ground has different ways of acting than you can predict. Water, any kind of liquid, and (TCE) is more aggressive than water, it’ll see a crack and go where it wants to go. There’s a stream running through that area that can pick up TCE and take it through the property of Terry Ranch. If it does that, all kinds of ways that gets into the aquifer.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2021/02/20/part-3-addressing-concerns-from-save-greeleys-water-about-the-terry-ranch-project/

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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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