[CPEO-MEF] BIOLABS, VOCs: "Army studying how Fort Detrick’s [MD] Area B groundwater contamination will affect future development"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army studying how Fort Detrick’s Area B groundwater contamination will affect future development

By ANGELA ROBERTS  
FREDERICK NEWS-POST (MD)
November 1, 2022

As the U.S. Army continues determining how best to clean up groundwater contamination caused by a former biowarfare test site in Frederick, Md., researchers are also studying what protective technology should be added to houses and condominiums planned to be built nearby.

Construction on the second phase of the Waverley View development is expected to begin toward the end of next year, said Christopher Dorment, chairman and owner of the Virginia-based Rocky Gorge Development.

This phase, with 122 houses and 180 condominiums, Dorment said, is planned for the 23-acre parcel between Shookstown Road and the southwest fence line of Fort Detrick's Area B.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-01/army-fort-detrick-groundwater-contamination-7885972.html

See also the editorial at https://www.fredericknewspost.com/opinion/editorial/area-b-a-malignancy-that-dominates-our-landscape/article_7b2c5007-c3b0-50c2-a3f7-486b296332a3.html

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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