2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:25:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, DEVELOPMENT: "Army denied access to test Frederick housing site for contamination" near Ft. Detrick, MD
 
Army denied access to test Frederick housing site for contamination

Katherine Heerbrandt
The Gazette (MD)
August 9, 2012

Consultants for Fort Detrick are having trouble accessing properties to continue testing for possible groundwater contamination, including land designated for the construction of 732 homes.

The homes in the Waverly View development were approved by the city of Frederick in 2001, but have not yet been built.

The property, bordering Shookstown Road, abuts Area B, a 399-acre site formerly used as a dumping ground for chemical and biological waste that was named a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2009.

Fort Detrick attorney Gary Zolyak said in an email that the property had "various legal issues" that made it difficult to get approvals from the owner to conduct groundwater testing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120809/NEWS/708099879/1016/army- denied-access-to-test-frederick-housing-site-for- contamination&template=gazette

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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