Kelly AFB Constructs Massive Reactive Barrier

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force putting barriers around pollution

Jerry Needham
San Antonio Express-News
April 3, 2004

Marking the first major attempt to clean up polluted groundwater that
has drifted beyond the gates of the former Kelly AFB, an Air Force
contractor is digging a massive trench along 34th Street and filling it
with 250 tons of iron filings.

Workers with Shaw Environmental on Friday began digging a 540-foot-long
trench up to 37 feet deep, to intercept and treat a plume of underground
pollution just north of the former base, now an industrial center known
as KellyUSA.

It's the first of three off-base iron trenches to be constructed over
the next six months to treat the pollution that mixed with underground
water and flowed off the former base. The iron chemically reacts with
chlorinated solvents to turn them into harmless compounds.

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA03.04B.iron_trench_0403.1080daf.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>
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