Anger and frustration erupted at Mount Tabor Church Thursday night as residents demanded Lockheed Martin Corp. stop work on the Tallevast pollution plume until the community is moved out of harm's way.
But relocation was not on the agenda of the meeting Lockheed called to brief the community on its final plan to clean up the 200-acre plume of toxic waste.
Instead, Lockheed officials Paul Calligan and Brad Owens tried to assure residents their high-tech cleanup plans are safe, despite the Aug. 3 failure of the water treatment system that spilled more than 5,000 gallons of contaminated groundwater into the community from the source of the plume.
"At the last meeting one month ago, you said nothing could go wrong," said Wanda Washington, vice president of FOCUS, a residents advocacy group. "Well, something did go wrong just days after that meeting and the community wants out."
The leak in the water treatment system has been traced to a hole in a hose in the secondary containment tank that surrounds an 11,000 gallon storage tank holding contaminated water before it is sent through the treatment system and discharged into the county sewer system.
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