[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Volunteer Army Ammo Plant (TN)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New groundwater pollution found at VAAP site

Pam Sohn
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
March 21, 2008

U.S. Army officials said it is unclear if an unexpected discovery of 
pollution in groundwater at the former Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant 
site will increase the cost of an ongoing multimillion-dollar cleanup there.

The property, now owned by Hamilton County and slated to become an 
expansion area for Enterprise South industrial park, once was the site 
of a fertilizer manufacturer, CF Industries, which leased property from 
the Army.

Now groundwater sampling there has found levels of contaminants in 
excess of drinking water standards, according to U.S. Army spokesman 
Scott Bolton and Tim Woolheater with the Environmental Protection Agency.

...

Last fall regulatory and Army officials announced that most of the soil 
cleanup work at the former TNT plant is complete and to date has cost 
about $85 million. But they said a groundwater cleanup plan now just 
beginning and slated to end in 2011 could cost an additional $10 million 
to $80 million.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/mar/21/new-groundwater-pollution-found-vaap-site/?local

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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