[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: "Questions remain around cleanup of former nuke sites near Cheyenne, " (WY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former missile site contamination leaves questions, worries

Wyoming Tribune Eagle
December 13, 2015
Questions remain around cleanup of former nuke sites near Cheyenne


CHEYENNE - Leo Garcia hadn't heard of trichloroethylene about four decades ago when he moved into his red-and-white house just west of Cheyenne.

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About 12 miles to the west of his house, tucked away in the Belvoir Ranch, is the former Atlas Missile Site 4.

That is where the Army Corps of Engineers plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a more-than-100-year effort to remove TCE from the groundwater after it seeped into the ground while being used to clean the missile launcher in the 1960s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2015/12/13/news/01top_12-13-15.txt#.Vm5Xs3ufP-8
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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