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Fort Detrick has no plans for contamination warnings

The chief environmental officer at Fort Detrick says the Army has no plans to post signs warning of potential chemical contamination in surface water.

Tags: The Frederick News-Post, Carroll Creek

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Solar panels planned at Fort Detrick in Md.

Army officials say they hope to reduce Fort Detrick's reliance on the electrical grid by installing solar panels on an undeveloped part of the installation in Frederick.

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Hundreds come out to honor wounded veterans

Michael McKnight got a little stir crazy hanging out in a hotel room near Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda So when his buddy Benjamin Williams called to invite him to Fort Detrick on Saturday, he jumped at the opportunity to spend a few hours outdoors

Tags: veterans, Wounded Warriors, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,

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Fort Detrick incinerators run afoul of Md. regs

Officials at Fort Detrick in Frederick say they're adding filtration equipment to a pair of trash incinerators after the Maryland Department of the Environment alleged violations of their operating permit.

Tags: Maryland Department of the Environment

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Scout develops device to make reloading gun easier

Brian Nelle is only in seventh grade, but his ingenuity has already made a difference in the life of a wounded veteran.

Tags: Boy Scouts, Brian Nelle, guns, Brunswick Middle School

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Burgess of Rosemont, Md., to resign

The burgess of the Frederick County town of Rosemont plans to resign after 11 months in office.

Tags: Rosemont, Delmas Freeman,

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Military medical experts mark progress against the common cold

Tags: colds, illness, respiratory illness, adenovirus

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Panel faults Fort Detrick, Md., groundwater study

A 2009 federal study that concluded groundwater contamination from Fort Detrick was unlikely to have harmful health effects was flawed, a national scientific panel said Monday, prompting two U.S. senators to demand a faster cleanup of the Superfund site in Frederick.

Tags: ground water, pollution, Maryland, Frederick County

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Report: Groundwater contamination in Area B deemed indeterminate

Exposure data used by a federal agency in its study of groundwater contamination at Fort Detrick's Area B was inadequate and the seepage should have been considered "an indeterminate public-health hazard," the National Research Council said today

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Fort Detrick to modernize, decentralize heat pipes

Fort Detrick officials say they are planning to modernize and decentralize the aging network of steel steam pipes that snake across the post.

Tags: steam pipes

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