[CPEO-MEF] Former Schilling AFB (KS) TCE source

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What lies beneath
Locals wonder if corps deliberately avoided finding contamination

By DUANE SCHRAG
Salina Journal (KS)
April 9, 2006

When Salina public officials finally got their hands onto a draft copy 
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers investigation of contamination at 
the former Schilling Air Force Base last summer, they were stunned.

Getting a copy was no cakewalk. The corps refused to provide it, saying 
it doesn't share draft versions of its work. So the local officials got 
a copy of the document from the Kansas Department of Health and 
Environment, which was reviewing it.

What local officials discovered was that the corps had decided that a 
huge plume of contaminated water - a corps' map showed it stretched from 
the edge of the former air base well into neighborhoods in southwest 
Salina, as far north as Talley Drive and east of Haskett Avenue - had 
nothing to do with military use of the base.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7528/format/html/displaystory.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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