[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: Community survey at former Schilling Air Force Base (KS)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps gauging public knowledge of ex-Kansas base

By Maria Sudekum Fisher
Associated Press
January 15, 2012

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been gauging public  
understanding in the Kansas community of Salina about a site at the  
former Schilling Air Force base where there is possible contamination  
from chemical warfare training decades ago.

Tim Rogers, executive director of the Salina Airport Authority, where  
the site is located, said the investigation into possible  
contamination from chemical warfare training at Schilling is not  
related to ongoing negotiations between Salina and the federal  
government over groundwater contamination at the former base, which  
closed in the 1960s.

A Corps of Engineers contractor surveyed area officials recently to  
determine their interest in and knowledge of the site and its  
potential contamination from two types of chemicals used during  
training exercises more than 50 years ago.

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For the entire article, see
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/01/corps-gauging-public- 
knowledge-ex-kansas-base/2099596

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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
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