[CPEO-MEF] Lackland AFB (TX) - TCE sludge barrel removal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Barrels of sludge being removed at Lackland site


Jerry Needham
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
November 17, 2006

Contractors for the Air Force are removing barrels of sludge buried 
beneath a former golf course at Lackland AFB, the residue of degreasing 
operations at the former Kelly AFB.

By the end of the month, they expect to remove dozens of 55-gallon drums 
and dispose of them at a special facility near Robstown, said Mahalingam 
Ravichandran, Lackland's restoration program manager.

The drums were buried in the 1950s and 1960s in two areas that were 
being used then as landfills on what's now Lackland's southeast side, he 
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA111706.01B.lacklandbarrels.2f36b62.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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