2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:23:44 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] WATER: Bluegrass Depot (KY) discharges
 
Documents raise wastewater concerns at Ky. depot

By JEFFREY McMURRAY/Associated Press
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY)
December 30, 2009

Water used to clean explosives overflowed twice at a Kentucky Army depot, and a worker was told to dump rainwater that collected in another part of the depot into the sewer, according to a report obtained by an environmental watchdog.

The Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility [PEER] says the years-old documents it recently received from the Army raise concerns about the spillage and dumping of potentially contaminated wastewater.

The heavily redacted documents detail Army investigators' interviews with a Kentucky environmental regulator and a worker at the chemical weapons storage site at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond. They were posted last week on the watchdog group's site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kentucky.com/513/story/1077460.html

For the PEER release and background documents go to
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1288

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Lenny Siegel
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