Week of August 29

Calamityville cleanup on Council agenda
Dayton Daily News
The Council meets at 8 am at the Government Center to authorize change orders with Environmental Management Specialists for environmental remediation and demolition services on the at 506 E. Xenia Drive, the former Cemex cement plant site. ...

Environmental cleanup ongoing at former Air Force base gas station
Arizona Republic
The cleanup progressed through the base's closure in 1993 and continued as most of the ... millions of pounds of contaminants from aviation fuel, munitions, ...

East Coast's Irene cleanup to take days
CBS News
There was so much confusion that Maryland State Police declared it the most serious hazard of the day. Irene brought six inches to a foot of rain to many places along the East Coast. In one eastern North Carolina neighborhood, two dozen homes were ...

Camp Wheeler Survey Complete
GPB
Corps project manager Julie Hiscox says cleanup could begin in 2013, but they'll have to ... and there are some other military munitions sites in the state. ...

SouthField land transfer clears another hurdle
Enterprise News
The two sides signed a term sheet, a non-binding document outlining the legal terms of the $25 million deal, including plans for the Navy's environmental remediation work on the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. South Shore Tri-Town is the ...

Alabama tornadoes: Storm debris removal from roadsides almost complete
al.com (blog)
The county initially provided a list of 42 properties where cleanup was a concern, but that list is now down to about five properties, Grant said. The health department is monitoring those situations. "If we see something that is a public health hazard ...

Manmohan Singh, Musharraf came close to striking Kashmir deal ...
Times of India
Musharraf's four points included demilitarization, maximum autonomy, making border irrelevant and joint management of the area. ...

Viking stadium advocates busy trying to contain lots of 'little ...
MinnPost.com
... the cleanup of Minnesota's largest Superfund site and eventually robust ... Ted Mondale — responsible for reviewing the former munitions plant site ...

Johnny Cake Road drug lab site reclassified
Little Falls Evening Times
The DEC's environmental site remediation database, located at http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/haz/details.cfm?pageid=3, notes that large amounts of chlorinated solvents were used to refine cocaine as part of the drug-manufacturing ...

Environmental Cleanup Continues At 5 Wing Goose BayPosted on Sep 2, 2011
Ottawa Citizen (blog)
The government today announced three new projects valued at $62 million for environmental remediation work at 5 Wing Goose Bay. The three new projects include the removal of fuel and contaminants from the ground at the Survival Tank Farm, ...

Week of August 22
 
Rialto: Possible health problems from old wells
A state health assessment has found that tap water from two wells contaminated with a rocket fuel ingredient could have caused thyroid problems that affected the physical and mental development of people who grew up in Rialto in the 1980s. ...

Umatilla Increases Mustard Agent Disposal Rate
The project is the final chemical weapons demilitarization campaign at Umatilla; it is due to be completed by November. “The era of chemical munitions at Umatilla Chemical Depot is rapidly closing,” Gary Anderson, Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal ...

Cluster munitions conference to take place next month 
BEIRUT: Representatives of the army, nongovernmental organizations, and members of the media met Thursday ahead of the second meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, set to take place September in Beirut. ...

Pompton Lake BOE unclear on DuPont remediation project
In 2012, DuPont is scheduled to begin remediating the Pompton Lake Delta of contaminates it left behind when it operated a munitions factory in the borough from 1902 to 1994. ...

New permit at Y-12 would require mercury cleanup projects
OAK RIDGE — The state is using a new discharge permit at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant as a way to spur cleanup actions and reduce the amount of mercury — a toxic legacy of Cold War operations — that's entering the East Fork Poplar Creek. ...

EPA Begins Cleanup on Abandoned Cotton Seed Facility
ROBSTOWN - The Environmental Protection Agency has a team in Robstown this week removing toxic chemicals that could be a public health hazard. ...

Old military camp munition found
The US Army Corps of Engineers said the munitions were found on the border between Bibb and Twiggs counties where Camp Wheeler once stood, the Macon Telegraph reported Monday. A recent $3.2 million ground survey did not cover residential areas within ...

Multi-Year project announced for Buchans cleanup
With design work underway, it is expected that remediation work on the field will start in late September. “The residents of Buchans are delighted with today's announcement of an environmental remediation program for residential and public access areas ...

Chemical munitions still plague DC neighorhood
Excavations at the house since 2000 have uncovered smoking canisters of arsenic trichloride, liquid mustard, munitions and hardware related to the Army's chemical warfare program, which operated at nearby American University from 1917 to 1918. ...

Stratford's troubled Army Engine Plant property back on market
Under these terms, the eventual buyer will, in effect, "use the entire amount of its bid for environmental remediation of the property." There have been several earlier attempts to sell the property, former home of the Avco Lycoming engine plant. ...