The treatment system for a plume of contaminated groundwater under Fort Ord just got a sweet upgrade.
The Sacramento District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $10.7 million contract last week to San Diego-based Rore Innovative Solutions JV to build a new groundwater treatment plant to replace one of three existing plants on the former Army base.
The existing plant is about 20 years old and "has effectively cleaned the groundwater in its vicinity," according to the Army press release. It will keep running until the new plant, relocated near a plume source at the Fort Ord landfill, whirs into action.
Why is some Fort Ord groundwater contaminated? The Army has this history on its Fort Ord Cleanup website. Basically, the Army released some toxic stuff in the course of training when the base was open from 1917-1994. Some of it's pretty painstaking, and expensive, to get out of the groundwater supply, even 20 years later.
The polluted plume at the Fort Ord landfill lies west of Marina Coast Water District's drinking water supply wells—which, the Army stresses, meet state and federal drinking water standards.
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