[Military Environmental Forum] VOCS, FORMER MISSILE SITES: Former Offutt Air Force Base (NE)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harrison County to act on Air Base Contamination
County to act on water contamination



By Lee Zion
Harrison County Times-Reporter (NE)
June 30, 2026

 LOGAN — Harrison County has a site loaded with toxic chemicals, and of the people who live nearby, on 315th Street, there are five houses in a row. Eight people there have some form of cancer.
 To  County Commissioner Rebecca Wilkerson, the question was clear.

 “We’re not acknowledging that we have the contamination in our county,” she said.

The county responded to a letter sent to them by resident Marilyn Jo Mentzer about TCE, a contaminant in the county’s water. The letter was read in full at the meeting; a copy of that letter was printed in the June 24 edition of the Harrison County Times-Reporter.

Mentzer’s letter, which Wilkerson read out loud, stated that the level of TCE, or trichloroethylene, was at 110 parts per billion, far above the recommended level of 5 parts per billion. 
 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.missourivalleytimes.com/stories/harrison-county-to-act-on-air-base-contamination,62609

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)





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