[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: New housing near Hill Air Force Base (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Housing project gets green light in Layton

By Antone Clark
Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT)
May 24, 2012

LAYTON -- City officials are worried about possible traffic  
implications which may come with a new apartment project, as well as  
the potential for contamination from a plume located on the edge of  
the property.

...

Adding to Flitton's concern is the fact the parcel includes a small  
sliver of a contaminated ground plume, linked to Hill Air Force Base.  
Child said preliminary tests at the site have been negative for  
groundwater contamination and he said more secondary drilling was  
recently conducted to probe further for potential problems.

Child maintains the project will be carried out with the idea of  
addressing any potential impacts from the plume that may arise in the  
future. He said builders will include a passive vapor barrier under  
foundations of the buildings and wire all of the buildings to be able  
to activate air pump systems, which would extract any contaminated  
air from under the concrete slabs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/05/07/housing-project-gets-green- 
light-layton

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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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