[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Hill Air Force Base (UT) cleanup update

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill AFB making progress on cleanup

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret News (UT)
July 31, 2009

SUNSET - As Hill Air Force Base races to meet a pollution cleanup goal 
set by the U.S. Air Force, it has some good news for the communities 
surrounding the base and affected by the pollution.

It's making progress.

During fiscal 2009, which ends in September, the base will have spent 
$21 million on cleanup efforts and is poised to do the same for the 
coming fiscal year.

This year's money was spent on installing pumps that suck pollution out 
of the ground in Roy; creating feasibility studies for contaminated 
plumes in Clearfield, Sunset and on base; treating groundwater in South 
Weber; and installing a permeable barrier just east of Sunset.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705320440,00.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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