2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Old missile sites
 
Pollution an enduring legacy at old ICBM sites

By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
October 10, 2009

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy - groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is identifying and cleaning up dozens of former nuclear missile sites in nine states.

To date, the corps has spent $116 million at 44 former Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missile sites and 19 former Nike anti-aircraft missile sites from the early Cold War. The ICBM sites include 14 in Kansas, 10 in Nebraska, seven in Wyoming, seven in Colorado and two in Oklahoma. California, New Mexico, New York and Texas have one contaminated ICBM site each.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSgYm1yGdz-G-jDXK4Pl52B1HrbQD9B8AVQG1

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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