From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 21 Sep 2007 05:49:22 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-irf |
Subject: | [CPEO-IRF] Orion Park, Moffett Field (CA) "complex fight" |
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, 2007After 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. ... For the entire article, see http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=161 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum | |
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