2014 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Re: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Report finds current cleanup method at Cheyenne [WY] missile site inadequate"
 
Prodding the Corps

Opinion by JOAN BARRON
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
October 5, 2014


CHEYENNE -- State officials are prodding the U.S. Corps of Engineers to do more work on the groundwater pollution problem at the Belvoir Ranch west of Cheyenne.

The corps has been monitoring wells in the affected area since the early 2000s after techlorethylene (TCE) was found in the groundwater at F.E. Warren Air Force Base’s former Atlas Missile Site No. 4. The site closed in 1964.

The City of Cheyenne bought the 17,000-acre Belvoir ranch in 2003 to expand the city's water supply and for a possible landfill site.

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For the entire column, see
http://trib.com/opinion/columns/barron-prodding-the-corps/ article_43c65cab-e51a-52e9-aecc-ae74ec1109c0.html

On Oct 5, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

Report finds current cleanup method at Cheyenne missile site inadequate
Study on Army Corps of Engineers' work was sought by Wyoming DEQ

By TREVOR GRAFF
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
October 3, 2014

A recently released study commissioned by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' process for mitigating groundwater contamination at an Atlas missile site west of Cheyenne is inadequate.

Intera Geoscience and Engineering Solutions engineers say that by neglecting to fully characterize the source of the pollution at Missile Site 4, the corps is resorting to pumping water and treating it midway between the source zone and a Cheyenne water well field rather than at its source.

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For the entire article, see
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/report-finds-current- cleanup-method-at-cheyenne-missile-site-inadequate/ article_278f2db8-526e-5e27-8102-a09048891ab1.html

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