[CPEO-MEF] Lackland AFB/former Kelly AFB (TX) landfill excavation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ranger: 'I saw what appeared to be several 50-gallon drums'


Column by Roddy Stinson
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 11, 2006

Roddy's Rangers never sleep ...

ANONYMOUS RANGER: "Roddy, there is some digging going on in the area 
that was once the Kelly Air Force Base golf course.

"(Around noon last Friday) I saw a large hole adjacent to the road that 
leads up to Security Hill.

"In the hole, I saw what appeared to be several 50-gallon drums."

RODDY: Readers who aren't familiar with Kelly-contamination information 
published by this newspaper in the late 1990s might wonder why someone 
took the time and trouble to anonymously report "some digging going on" 
at the former Air Force base golf course.

Explanation:

In the summer of 1999, a former Kelly AFB worker told the an 
Express-News staffer: "There are some places on the golf course that 
have some pretty nasty stuff under them."

A subsequent investigation found ...

In the 1960s, carcasses of animals used in radiological research at 
nearby Brooks AFB were buried at a disposal site at Kelly.

An Air Force document described the site as "an excavated area with 
dimensions approximately 50 feet by 100 feet. The wastes, sometimes 
placed in 55-gallon drums, were buried with three to four feet of fill 
material."

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA071106.3A.stinson.11dca73.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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