[CPEO-IRF] Ellsworth AFB (SD) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base closure could complicate Ellsworth cleanup


Associated Press
Aberdeen American News (SD)
May 23, 2005

RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Department of Defense says it will continue an
environmental cleanup of jet fuel, solvents and other contaminants at
Ellsworth Air Force Base, even if the base is closed as the department
has recommended.

Ellsworth is a Superfund site. Over the past 10 years, the cleanup
ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency has cost the Air Force
$61 million.

"The Air Force and the Department of Defense are liable," Pentagon
spokesman Glenn Flood told the Rapid City Journal.

There is a long list of contaminants, most of them released into the
environment decades ago.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11712489.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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