[CPEO-IRF] El Toro Marine Corps Air Station (CA) groundwater treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solving the solvent problem
Pumps to clean trichloroethylene from groundwater at old El Toro base.

By JEFF ROWE
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA)
October 27, 2006

In about a week, switches will be thrown and the last major pollution 
remediation effort will begin at the old El Toro base.

Pumps will start drawing up solvent-laced water from rock, sand and clay 
in a plume that extends about four miles under the base and into the 
neighboring community of Woodbridge.

It's the legacy of years of scrubbing aircraft parts with a solvent 
called trichloroethylene, TCE, which often poured into the ground. Over 
the years, rainwater carried the solvent into the earth and now the 
plume ranges in depth from about 50 to 200 feet on the base and from 200 
to 700 feet off the base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1336435.php

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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