Download or read book Cleaning Up Our Nation s Cold War Legacy Sites written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleaning up our nation's Cold War legacy sites : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 29, 2017.

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Download or read book Cleaning Up Our Nation s Cold War Legacy Sites written by Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Wyoming is proud of the role that it played in deterring the threat that the former Soviet Union posed. This involved the development and deployment of Atlas nuclear missiles during the early days of the cold war. These missile sites were on high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Our servicemen maintained these sites by using vast amounts of trichloroethylene, TCE, to clean rocket fuel lines. These soldiers had no idea that decades later that practice would create a serious negative environmental legacy. Today there is groundwater contamination from the TCE. Seven of these Atlas Missile sites are around the city of Cheyenne area, and they have varying degrees of groundwater contamination. According to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Atlas Site 4's TCE concentrations in the groundwater exceed 240,000 parts per billion, well above a safe drinking limit of 5 parts per billion. The Atlas site plume of TCE is around 12 miles long and 3 miles wide. According to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, it is "one of, if not the largest TCE plume in all of the country." The Army Corps of Engineeers has since constructed a water treatment plant that ensures that Cheyenne's water is clean and safe, and has provided granulated activated carbon systems for private landowners who use well water. Wyoming isn't the only State that has cold war legacy environmental problems. Many States, especially in the West, have quite a few sites associated with the cold war. The Department of Defense, though, has an obligation to leave States like Wyoming whole; to not only provide for our nation's safety, but also to restore the environment of the communities.

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Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017 and the Future Years Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 S 2182 H R 4301 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress Second Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Application of Nuclear Energy Panel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A review of DOE s accelerated cleanup program and state based compliance agreements written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: