[CPEO-MEF] Phytoremediation at former base in Los Alamitos (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Trees at work

Poplars, known as heavy drinkers, are helping to clean jet fuel out of 
the soil at the Joint Forces Training Base.

By BLYTHE BERNHARD
The Orange County Register (CA)
May 4, 2005

LOS ALAMITOS - The engineering firm tasked with the chemical cleanup at 
the Joint Forces Training Base has an unlikely employee: trees.

Through a process called phytoremediation, poplar trees are breaking 
down and soaking up residual amounts of jet fuel that leaked from 
underground tanks when the base was a naval air station.

The cleanup method was developed about 12 years ago as a cost-effective 
alternative to pump-and-treat systems or digging up soil and 
transferring it to a landfill.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/05/04/sections/local/local/article_506294.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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