[CPEO-MEF] Hill AFB cleaup to last 65 years

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill's groundwater cleanup expected to last 65 years

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret Morning News (UT)
December 11, 2006

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After decades of chemical dumping at Hill Air 
Force Base, groundwater cleanup here is expected to be completed in 65 
years.

That will make 120 years and more than a half billion dollars spent 
since contamination started spreading from a number of unlined chemical 
dumps at Hill.

Many of the chemicals are known or suspected to cause cancer. In high 
concentrations, nearly all of them will kill you, but according to a 
2003 report from the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry, it would take much higher concentrations than what is found 
around Hill. Even so, Hill and its surrounding area were declared a 
Superfund site in 1987 and added to the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency's National Priorities List, meaning human exposure to 
contaminants is not under control.

The groundwater contamination spreads between 50 feet a year in Clinton 
and Sunset to 300 feet a year in Roy.

"We, as a corporate entity, feel terrible that we've created this kind 
of problem," said Bob Elliott, Hill's environmental-restoration chief.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650214223,00.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>
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