2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 23:17:38 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, REUSE: Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (SC)
 
Contamination rages on years after base closes

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
May 25, 2008

High levels of environmental contamination still exist at the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base more than 15 years after the military left, but experts say the pollution is not affecting new retail and residential developments there.

The contamination also is not related to groundwater pollution discovered last year in a roughly 10-block neighborhood near the AVX Corp. manufacturing facility, which is located adjacent to the base, according to state and federal officials.

Environmental tests over the past three years show chemicals such as benzene, vinyl chloride and trichloroethylene, or TCE, exist in groundwater at the former military base at levels far above what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for drinking water.

The groundwater has not been used for drinking water since 1999, but state and federal regulators still require the military to reduce pollution to those standards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/462491.html

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Lenny Siegel
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