[CPEO-MEF] Central Nebraska Regional Airport (a former defense site)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination found at airport

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
April 22, 2007

Contaminated groundwater has been found at the Central Nebraska Regional 
Airport in Grand Island.

Officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said mercury and 
arsenic were found as part of testing being done on formerly utilized 
defense sites in Nebraska.

Nebraska has 102 such sites across the state, including the Central 
Nebraska Regional Airport. Government records show the local base was 
active as a military airfield from 1942 to 1948 and again from 1962 to 1969.

"They did detect dissolved mercury, but it did not exceed the safe 
drinking water standard," said Brian Mitchell, the Nebraska site 
assessment manager for the EPA's Kansas City office.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/042207/new_contamination22.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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