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Army calls EPA action at Ft. Detrick unnecessaryPublished 11/13/08
FREDERICK, Md. — The Army says it is unnecessary for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to add to a list of the nation's most polluted places an old Fort Detrick dump site that has tainted private wells and yielded live pathogens from biodefense labs.
In a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Addison D. Davis told the EPA the Army plans to cap the sources of ground water contamination next spring at an undeveloped part of the post called Area B.
Addison also objected to the EPA's initial rating of the site as a relatively high hazard. The rating of 49.52...
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