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  • April

    Cleanup of Army Lab Spill Nearing Completion

    HANOVER -The U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover is preparing to wrap up the remedial action plan it began some 12 years ago in response to a trichloroethylene spill that CRREL officials discovered on the site in 1990.

  • News Release: Cold Regions Lab TCE Plan and Public Meeting

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, N.H., has available for public review the final draft decision document for CRREL’s trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination remediation plan.

  • January

    Cold Regions Lab Public Meeting

    Cold Regions Lab Public Meeting to describe and discuss the local implications of the lab's submitted Environmental protection Agency's Risk Management Plan.

  • July

    News Release: CRREL continues groundwater remediation program

    As part of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's Trichloroeythlene remediation program, the installation has begun a Phase II Remedial Investigation and Baseline Risk Assessment study.

  • April

    News Release: Water treatment plant successfully removes TCE from CRREL industrial well water

    Results of water quality tests following the startup of a temporary groundwater treatment plant at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory show that the facility is no longer discharging trichloroethylene-laden (TCE) water into the Connecticut River.