[CPEO-MEF] Cleanup at former Schilling Air Force Base, Salina, KS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Countering contamination
Corps tries to alter TCE in water

By DUANE SCHRAG
Salina Journal (KS)
December 6, 2006

The soil at Kansas State University at Salina will turn purple next week 
but it won't be because of school pride.

Instead, it will be the result of potassium permanganate injections 
designed to break down trichloroethylene contamination in the soil and 
groundwater.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing cleanup of contamination 
left behind after the former Schilling Air Force Base closed in 1965. 
The property is now home to K-State at Salina, as well as the Salina 
Municipal Airport and the Salina Technical School.

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For the on-line version of the article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=8920&format=html

For the complete story, as circulated by Associated Press, see
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/16173516.htm

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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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