[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Atlas Missile Site 4, WY

[Lenny Siegel]

Barron: Missile site cleanup takes long-awaited step

By Joan Barron
Casper StarTribune (WY)
November 22, 2020

CHEYENNE — The COVID pandemic and lousy weather did not deter an Army Corps of Engineers team from continuing work tracking an underground stream of polluted water west of Cheyenne last spring and summer.

Instead they plowed on, installing monitoring wells to determine the boundaries of the leading edge of the plume west of Cheyenne.

The contaminated stream is from the abandoned Atlas Missile Site 4, one of many that operated in the 1950’s and 1960’s during the height of the Cold War.

Atlas 4 was active from 1960 to 1965.

Airmen at that time cleaned the missile components with trichloroethylene (TCE) a highly toxic solvent similar to the type used in dry cleaning.

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For the entire article, see
https://trib.com/opinion/columns/barron-missile-site-cleanup-takes-long-awaited-step/article_f6addc91-3431-509b-bcaa-3f2d166463ef.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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