[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Schilling Air Force Base (KS) "contamination worse than expected in some areas, better in others"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schilling contamination worse than expected in some areas, better in  
others

By TIM UNRUH
Salina Journal (KS)
February 27, 2015


Looking at fresh test results from Dragun Corporation, officials said  
Friday that contamination at the former Schilling Air Force Base is  
worse than expected in places and not so bad in others.

"In general, it has bolstered what we thought," said Matt Schroeder,  
manager of the remedial investigation at the former base and areas  
surrounding it.

But there also were "some surprises," he said.

During a news conference Friday morning at the City-County Building,  
Schroeder, a senior environmental engineer for Dragun, a consulting  
firm from Farmington Hills, Mich., and Michael Sklash, senior  
hydrologist, updated the public on work accomplished since May.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.salina.com/news/schilling-contamination-worse-than- 
expected-in-some-areas-better-in/article_79b2e5c4- 
ad71-5fba-8eb7-22f29daf8cfc.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
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