[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Ft. Detrick (MD) groundwater update

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Detrick groundwater still polluted


By Associated Press
Frederick News-Post (MD)
January 13, 2012


FREDERICK (AP) -[ An Army contractor says groundwater beneath a  
former dump site at Fort Detrick in Frederick continues to show high  
levels of toxic chemicals.

...

The project manager says 15 new and existing sampling wells detected  
five compounds at levels above federal drinking-water standards. They  
include the known human carcinogen TCE and the suspected carcinogens  
PCE and chloroform.

None of the compounds was found in the groundwater of five nearby  
residential properties. But TCE was found in water at a spring  
outside the fort.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayUpdate.htm? 
StoryID=130534

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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