[CPEO-IRF] Orion Park, Moffett Field (CA) "complex fight"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Passing the buck on Orion Park?
With so many government agencies involved, TCE cleanup becomes a complex 
issue

by Daniel Debolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
September 20, 2007


After years of foot-dragging, NASA, the EPA, the Navy and even the White 
House are all players in a complex fight to either speed up or pass the 
buck on the cleanup of toxins at Orion Park. Some details of that fight 
spilled into a Moffett Field Restoration Advisory Board meeting last week.

The Army plans to consolidate training for central California reserve 
units at the 72-acre Orion Park, located just outside the main gate at 
Moffett Field. However, vapors of TCE, an industrial solvent, are 
believed to be emanating from the soil there at levels above the legal 
limit. The original source of the solvent is unknown.

The issue led to intense discussion at the RAB meeting last Thursday. 
Bob Moss, the citizen co-chair of the RAB, said he was familiar with 
legal actions involving Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto that would require 
the Army, the property's new owner, to clean up the site.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=161

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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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