[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES, VOCS: Ft. Meade (MD) Restoration Advisory Board

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Meade Environmental Board Continues Work, Adds New Members

The Fort Meade Restoration Advisory Board heard the latest on efforts to 
mitigate pollution caused by chemicals once produced at the military 
installation.

By Christian Freymeyer
Odenton Patch (MD)
November 19, 2010


While the Fort Meade Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) still has a lot of 
work to do regarding pollution coming from the military base, the board 
did make headway in their other goal–attracting more members.

...

The board, which is made up of community members and officials from Fort 
Meade, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the State, heard 
updates on a number of projects, most notably mitigation of an 
underground plume of the chemical Tetrachloroethene.

The plume originated on base at the Defense Reutilization and Marketing 
Office (DRMO). According to Jon Cherry, the project manager, the DRMO 
site was used by the Defense Property and Disposal Office as a dumpsite 
from the early 1960s to 1994.

...

For the entire article, see
http://odenton.patch.com/articles/fort-meade-environmental-board-continues-work-adds-new-members

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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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