[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: "EPA seeks public input on partial removal of Fort Ord [CA] from Superfund list."

[Lenny Siegel]

EPA seeks public input on partial removal of Fort Ord from Superfund list.

By Asaf Shalev
Monterey County Weekly (CA)
November 25, 2020

The cleanup effort at Fort Ord could hit a historic milestone next month as the Environmental Protection Agency seeks to partially remove the former U.S. Army base from the national Superfund list of contaminated sites. 

The EPA announced the plan in the Federal Registrar on Nov. 20 opening up a 30-day period to collect feedback from members of the public. Fort Ord and three other Superfund sites are lumped together in the same notice. 

The action would declare the cleanup of military munitions and soil pollution on 11,934 acres of the 27,827 Fort Ord site, or about 43-percent complete. The Army will continue to work on the groundwater and soil gas contamination in that area. The other 15,893 acres of Fort Ord will remain on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/epa-seeks-public-input-on-partial-removal-of-fort-ord-from-superfund-list/article_26665946-2f5d-11eb-bc60-3b3a203fe0da.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org