[CPEO-IRF] Memphis Depot cleanup re-starts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil cleanup at depot to resume in Sept.

Bottles found by crews contained hazardous material

By Tom Charlier
Memphis Commercial Appeal (TN)
August 15, 2005

Excavation crews had almost finished cleaning up a past disposal site at
the old Defense Depot last spring when they came across bottles --
thousands of them -- containing some unknown liquid. 

The discovery of the quart bottles prompted a delay of several months in
a project designed to remove contaminated soil from part of Dunn Field
on the northern edge of the depot in South Memphis. 

But now, after extensive laboratory tests and an additional
appropriation of funds, work is slated to resume next month. 

As it turns out, the clear liquid in the 3,000 bottles contained
orthotolidine, a substance used to test water for the presence of
chlorine, said Jackie Noble, spokesman for the Defense Distribution
Center in Pennsylvania, which is overseeing environmental work at the
Memphis facility. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_4002423,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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