2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:13:01 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CLOSURE: Newark Air Force Base (OH)
 
Contaminant removed from former base

Air Force takes soil to landfill, monitors site

By KENT MALLETT
Newark Advocate (OH)
January 6, 2009

HEATH -- Cleanup of a decades-old contamination at the former Newark Air Force Base soon will be finished, and the land available for development or greenspace

The U.S. Air Force expects to finish the $2 million project this month, with 7,500 tons of contaminated soil removed and new monitoring wells installed to determine water quality at the Central Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center location.

Peter Forbes, the Air Force project manager and an environmental engineer, said the three-quarter of an acre site included trichloroethene, a known carcinogen left from solvents stored there during the 1970s and 1980s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090106/NEWS01/901060308/1052/COMMUNITIES02

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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