[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Ft. Gillem (GA) remediation proposal

[Lenny Siegel]

March 26 deadline for Conley, Forest Park, Ellenwood residents to comment on Gillem toxic site cleanup

By Robin Kemp
Clayton Crescent (GA)
March 11, 2021

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is giving the public until March 26 to comment on its proposal for cleaning up decades of toxic waste that has seeped off base from a landfill on the north side of old Fort Gillem into groundwater in Forest Park.

The notice asking members of the public to e-mail written comments between February 25 and March 26, 2021 was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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The cleanup method the Army recommends is “enhanced bioremediation with MNA (monitored natural attenuation) and ICs (institutional controls).”

In plain English, that means the Army would squirt a mix of vegetable oil, microbes that eat pollution, a food source like molasses to feed the microbes, and a”buffer” into underground water that flows from the old dump on the north side to the neighborhoods on the other side of the fence.

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For the entire article, see
https://claytoncrescent.org/2021/03/11/march-26-deadline-for-conley-forest-park-ellenwood-residents-to-comment-on-gillem-toxic-site-cleanup/

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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
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