2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:52:30 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Former Schilling Air Force Base (KS)
 
Salina Contamination Case Progressing

Todd Pittenger
KSAL News (Salina, KS)
August 17, 2009


Salina is getting closer to cleaning up the contamination at the former Schilling Air Force Base, now the airport industrial area.

At issue is contamination, things like solvents that have seeped into the ground, left behind when the Air Force vacated the former Schilling Air Force Base facility back in the late 1960s. The area is now the Salina Airport Industrial Area.

Contamination includes both liquid and vapor.

The main concern is two large underground plumes of contamination, one in the north part of the Airport Industrial Area, and another on the south end.

Salina Airport Authority Executive Director Tim Rogers tells KSAL News that local officials have been trying to negotiate a settlement so cleanup can begin. They've worked their through the chain of command at the U.S. Corps of Engineers, and now have been handed off to the Department of Justice.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=10175&format=html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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