CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Residents are getting impatient and voicing concerns about the costly proposed cleanup of two missile sites.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports  the Restoration Advisory Board met Thursday and hosted officials from the Army Corps of Engineers who are cleaning up Atlas Missile Sites 3 and 4.

Board co-chair George Halyak said locals are frustrated at how long the project is taking. Residents have said they don't think enough is being done to keep the spread of a 13-mile plume of contaminated groundwater out of Cheyenne, located about 20 miles east of the site.

Drew Reckmeyer is a section chief with the engineering corps' Environmental Remediation Branch, and says he hopes a contract will be approved this summer to fund more wells to monitor the contamination.

Private wells and those at businesses nearest the contamination have tested negative, and no threat to the public is present.

 

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