2013 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:22:52 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Wyoming's former missile sites
 
Work continues on cleaning up contaminated missile sites

By Trevor Brow
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
April 26, 201

CHEYENNE - Federal officials are slowly making progress on a long- term project to clean-up - or at least contain - groundwater contamination west of Cheyenne.



The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers updated the public Thursday on its efforts to study the contamination caused by chemicals that were used to clean 1960s-era missile sites.



During the 1990s, investigators discovered the presence of trichloroethylene, or TCE, in the groundwater near Belvoir Ranch, which was the former Atlas Missile Site No. 4.



For the past decade, officials have set up monitoring wells to study how a 10-mile plume of the chemical has spread and what risks it poses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2013/04/26/news/20local_04-26-13.txt

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