Clean cleaning at Kelly

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Company tunes jet engines by striking a green-friendly note

San Antonio Business Journal
Mike W. Thomas
July 2, 2004

Five years ago, Standard Aero moved into a dank, dark hangar at the 
former Kelly Air Force Base that was nicknamed "the cave." The facility 
was so dark that people would bump into one another as they moved about, 
recalls Brian Skrobarcek, environmental affairs coordinator for Standard 
Aero San Antonio Inc.

But today the facility is brightly lit, clutter-free and sparkling 
clean. The work area is neatly organized and divided into cells that 
promote maximum efficiency and production.

A member of the Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group based in Winnipeg, 
Canada, Standard Aero was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract in 1999 
to repair and overhaul T56 engines for the U.S. Department of Defense.

At the time, Kelly Air Force Base was in the process of being shut down 
and transitioned into KellyUSA, a private-sector industrial park. The 
Air Force officially closed Kelly on July 13, 2001.

The type of work that had been done previously at the Kelly facility 
typically required heavy use of chlorinated solvents and resulted in 
large amounts of industrial wastewater. It was this type of activity 
that had over time contributed to the severe groundwater contamination 
at Kelly.

But Standard Aero had previously perfected a technique for overhauling 
gas turbine engines in a closed-loop facility that produced no 
wastewater. When the company moved into the facility at Kelly, it did 
not tie into the pipelines that had been used by the Air Force to pump 
out wastewater to a special treatment facility. Instead, Standard Aero 
treats its own wastewater and recycles it.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2004/07/05/story8.html

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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
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