2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PCBs: Hill Air Force Base (UT) cleanup
 
No further action needed in Hill Air Force Base PCB cleanup

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret News (UT)
March 23, 2010

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - The 2007-08 cleanup of contaminated soil in a housing unit at Hill Air Force Base is sufficiently protecting residents, according to a proposed plan for the area.

Base officials are proposing that no further action is needed because contaminated soil was removed from Housing Area F - near the west side of the base - and replaced with clean fill dirt.

...

In 2007, base contractors discovered soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which can cause a skin rash known as chloro-acne at high levels and have been shown to cause cancer in some laboratory animals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700018954/No-further-action-needed-in-Hill-Air-Force-Base-PCB-cleanup.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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