2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 25 May 2006 21:00:59 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Former Marine landfill, Albany (CA)
 
Former landfill to get new life

Mr. Pat Fisher, MCLB Albany (GA)
Marines.com
May 25, 2006


MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE ALBANY, Ga.(May 25, 2006) -- A former landfill just west of the Indian Lake Refuge area here is being given a new life, thanks to a $3 million environmental restoration project.


According to officials at the Environmental Branch here, the project involves placing a 52-inch-thick soil and compost cover over the 28-acre site and then replanting it with grass and trees to slow down the infiltration of rainwater through buried contaminants and then into the groundwater. The landfill restoration project is in conjunction with another $4 million project to treat and monitor the base’s overall groundwater system.

Construction of the evapotranspiration cover, as it is called, will include 6,000 truckloads of fill being transported across the base to the site by way of the truck gate off Fleming Road.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/A750CEC08A50D0B085257179004C9109?opendocument

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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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