[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Brandywine storage site, Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

WWII-era soil, water contamination under control
Engineers from Joint Base Andrews reporting successes in Brandywine 
cleanup efforts

by Zoe Tillman
Business Gazette (MD)
January 21, 2010


Halting the decades-long contamination of soil and groundwater from 
spilt chemicals at an old military storage site in Brandywine hasn't 
been easy, but engineers from Joint Base Andrews are calling cleanup 
efforts so far a success.

The civil engineering squadron of the 316th Wing began cleanup efforts 
in the 1990s after realizing chemical spills dating back to the 1940s 
had spread contaminants several acres beyond the original eight-acre 
storage site.

Engineers coordinating the cleanup say that as of January, they have 
removed all soil-based contamination and have halted the spread of 
pollutants in groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.net/stories/01212010/uppenew181518_32554.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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