[CPEO-MEF] Fresno sues over Hammer Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fresno sues in airfield contamination
City says feds, Boeing refuse to pay their share of the Hammer cleanup.

By Pablo Lopez
The Fresno Bee (CA)
November 3, 2006

The city of Fresno has sued the federal government and Boeing Co., 
charging that they refuse to pay their share of the cleanup at Old 
Hammer Field, a contaminated section of the Fresno Yosemite 
International Airport.

The former military base was polluted by a degreaser that was used to 
clean and refurbish aircraft during and after World War II. The 
degreaser contaminated the city's ground water, City Attorney James 
Sanchez said Thursday.

The city discovered the problem in the late 1980s. To date, the city has 
spent $3.1 million to investigate and formulate a cleanup plan, Sanchez 
said. Boeing has spent $2.7 million, and the U.S. government has spent 
$5.5 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/10963.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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