[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Hill Air Force Base (UT) TCE response

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill base reps: TCE being contained

By Deanne Winterton
Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT)
December 2, 2011
RIVERDALE -- A decades-old contamination problem is on the mend, say  
Hill Air Force Base representatives.

Alan Jones, a project manager for cleanup of TCE (trichloroethene)  
plumes originating on the base, said 119 Riverdale homes sit on top  
of two plumes. Over the years, technicians have tested the air in 84  
of those homes and installed vapor removal systems in six.

Jones said the TCE contamination happened when Hill Air Force Base  
disposed of degreasers before 1980, when contamination was first  
discovered in Riverdale.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/12/02/hill-base-reps-tce-being- 
contained

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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