[CPEO-MEF] TCE at former Schilling Air Force Base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public to hear about toxins found at Schilling AFB

Associated Press
Wichita Eagle (KS)
August 16, 2005

SALINA, Kan., - Federal, state and local officials were scheduled to
brief the public Tuesday night about toxic contamination found at the
former Schilling Air Force Base.

State health officials say ground samples taken at the Salina base in
2003 showed evidence of potentially harmful trichloroethylene, or TCE, a
solvent used to remove grease from metal.

Heavy concentrations of metal and jet fuel also turned up in the samplings.

Ed Lewis, the Army Corps of Engineers' Kansas City, Mo.-based project
manager for Schilling, estimated the cleanup at the former base could
cost $22 million and take as long as 30 years, Topeka radio station WIBW
reported Tuesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/12398207.htm

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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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