[CPEO-IRF] Colorado halts Lowry AFB oversight

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lowry cleanup in limbo
State regulators halt work amid Air Force payment dispute

By Kim McGuire 
Denver Post 
April 27, 2005

Frustrated over months of unpaid bills, state environmental regulators
stopped work at the former Lowry Air Force Base earlier this month,
threatening to delay the $82 million cleanup and complicating efforts to
wrap up construction of the Denver-area neighborhood. 

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will not go
back to work until the Air Force pays $100,000 for state cleanup work
conducted since September, state health officials said Tuesday.

"What's really confusing is that the Air Force has looked at our billing
practices before and didn't signal anything was wrong," said Howard
Roitman, the department's director of environmental programs.

Some Lowry residents say they worry about the state's absence from the
former base, which is contaminated with asbestos and TCE, an industrial
solvent that seeped into the groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2837801,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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