[CPEO-IRF] TCE and former Kelly Air Force Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kelly cleanup may get a whole lot costlier


Anton Caputo And Jerry Needham
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 29, 2006

The cost of cleaning up a polluted shallow aquifer below the former 
Kelly AFB and thousands of surrounding homes and businesses could 
skyrocket in the wake of a national science panel's report that found a 
strong link between kidney cancer and a widely used solvent.

Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was used to degrease metals at Kelly and 
countless other military bases and industrial sites across the country.

The Air Force already has spent $320 million to clean up TCE and several 
other pollutants beneath Kelly. But the findings could lead to much 
stricter cleanup standards, which is what health advocates long have 
been clamoring for.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA072906.01A.TCE.17c083d.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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