[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: "Missile site cleanup east of Cheyenne [WY] questioned"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Missile site cleanup east of Cheyenne questioned

Wyoming News
May 19, 2015

CHEYENNE - It could take 200 years and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

And some local residents and government officials are not even sure if it will work.

At issue is a proposed plan to clean up groundwater that was contaminated by chemicals used to clean a 1960s-era missile site. The site is located off Campstool Road about 20 miles east of Cheyenne.

The Atlas "D" Missile Site No. 3 is one of the former F.E. Warren Air Force Base-operated missile sites where investigators have found trichloroethylene, or TCE, in the groundwater.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2015/05/19/news/20local_05-19-15.txt#.VV0n36afObg

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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