[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Funding uncertainty could delay" vapor mitigation for "planned homes next to Fort Detrick’s Area B," MD

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Funding uncertainty could delay contamination prevention tech in homes near Area B
    
By Gabrielle Lewis
Frederick News Post (MD)
June 13, 2025

Federal funding uncertainties could delay the U.S. Army’s plans to install technology in planned homes next to Fort Detrick’s Area B to prevent health risks from contaminated groundwater.

During a meeting Wednesday for Area B’s Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), which is overseeing the land’s remediation, Army officials said that moving the project forward depends on receiving enough money from the federal government.

Area B, a 399-acre parcel of land between Kemp Lane and Shookstown Road, separate from the main Fort Detrick campus, was used as a test site for the Army’s biological warfare program in the mid-20th century.

After the program was ended in 1969, scientists disposed of hazardous waste in unlined trenches and pits within Area B, leading to groundwater contamination. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/environment/funding-uncertainty-could-delay-contamination-prevention-tech-in-homes-near-area-b/article_38587946-9172-5989-b525-fba854d0bb32.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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