[CPEO-MEF] Hill Air Force Base (UT) TCE cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleaning up Hill pollution to take years, hefty funding

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret Morning News
December 10, 2006

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - For decades, certain chemicals used at Hill Air 
Force Base were thrown out the back door or dumped in disposal trenches.

That was back when cars were built without seat belts and ran on leaded 
gasoline, and people smoked menthol cigarettes to freshen their breath 
and add a sparkle to their smiles. The nation hadn't yet developed an 
environmentally concerned part of the brain.

Those chemicals at Hill, mostly degreasers like trichloroethylene, sat 
on the ground and leaked into a shallow groundwater system. The 
contaminated groundwater spread and can now be found in 16 locations on 
and off the base. Some of the contaminated plumes have flowed to parts 
of Layton, Clearfield, Sunset, Clinton, Roy, Riverdale and South Weber.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650213961,00.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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