[CPEO-MEF] "March ARB [CA] cleanup running smoothly"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

March ARB cleanup running smoothly

MARCH: Workers tackle toxic wastes at one of the oldest U.S. air 
installations.

07:16 AM PST on Friday, February 3, 2006

By JOE VARGO
Riverside Press-Enterprise
February 3, 2006

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE - In their efforts to clean up decades of 
hazardous waste and industrial pollution, March Air Reserve Base 
environmental engineers are employing huge carbon filters, above-ground 
furnaces and even gas-gobbling bacteria.

It's a long-term process that began when the base was put on the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list -- designating it a top 
priority for cleanup -- in 1989. It's not scheduled to be completed 
until 2021, with a cost of $169 million.

Members of a community watchdog group, who recently toured the pollution 
sites on the base, give March officials high marks for their efforts to 
clean up the mess, some of which dates to the 1930s.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_H_cleanup03.1d38e178.html
--
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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