Army site’s disposal of wastewater cited

From: The Washington Times | December 31, 2009 

LEXINGTON, Ky. | Water used to clean explosives overflowed twice at a Kentucky Army depot, and a worker was told to dump rainwater that collected in another part of the depot into the sewer, according to a report obtained by an environmental watchdog. The Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says the years-old documents it recently received from the Army raise concerns about the spillage and dumping of potentially contaminated wastewater. The heavily redacted documents detail Army investigators' interviews with a Kentucky environmental regulator and a worker at the chemical-weapons storage site at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Ky. ...

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