[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, REUSE: Former Williams Air Force Base (AZ) gas station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental cleanup ongoing at former Air Force base gas station
Pollutants at former air base being removed

by Art Thomason
Arizona Republic
August 28, 2011

It's labeled Site ST035 on an environmental-cleanup map.

But more people know it as the location of the former Williams Air  
Force Base gas station, where leaking fuel contaminated the soil and  
groundwater with benzene and other pollutants for decades.

Today even more people know the site as Arizona State University  
Polytechnic's new Academic Complex, which stands as a symbol of how  
far the massive environmental-recovery effort has come and how far it  
still has to go.

The private contractors hired to conduct the recovery estimate that  
all of the sites will be ready for removal from the EPA list by the  
end of the decade.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/ 
2011/08/28/20110828air-force-base-gas-station-cleanup.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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