[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Hill Air Force Base (UT) vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Hill Air Force Base has the most pro-active vapor intrusion program of 
any U.S. military installation that I've reviewed. - LS]

Hill Air Force Base air OK'd

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret News (UT)
December 4, 2008

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The air inside aging buildings on the west side of 
Hill Air Force Base is still OK to breathe, according to results from an 
air-sampling survey recently completed at the base.

Officials didn't expect anything to be wrong, but they were prepared to 
take action if certain chemicals had been found in high enough 
concentrations.

The sampling was done because of the buildings' proximity to 
contaminated groundwater.

Base scientists has performed similar sampling for homes in Clearfield, 
Roy, South Weber, Sunset, Layton, Clinton and Riverdale — the seven 
cities affected by various contaminated groundwater plumes originating 
on base.

The chemicals trichloroethylene, or TCE, and tetrachloroethylene, or 
PCE, both potential carcinogens, began finding their way into the 
groundwater beneath the base beginning in the 1930s. For 40 years, the 
chemicals were disposed of directly onto the ground or into unlined 
chemical pits — procedures that are now unacceptable.

...

For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705268094,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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