2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 9 Apr 2006 08:26:37 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Former Schilling AFB (KS) TCE source
 
What lies beneath
Locals wonder if corps deliberately avoided finding contamination

By DUANE SCHRAG
Salina Journal (KS)
April 9, 2006

When Salina public officials finally got their hands onto a draft copy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers investigation of contamination at the former Schilling Air Force Base last summer, they were stunned.

Getting a copy was no cakewalk. The corps refused to provide it, saying it doesn't share draft versions of its work. So the local officials got a copy of the document from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which was reviewing it.

What local officials discovered was that the corps had decided that a huge plume of contaminated water - a corps' map showed it stretched from the edge of the former air base well into neighborhoods in southwest Salina, as far north as Talley Drive and east of Haskett Avenue - had nothing to do with military use of the base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7528/format/html/displaystory.html

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