From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 18 Feb 2007 08:40:20 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PCBs found under Hill AFB (UT) housing |
PCBs found in soil under Hill housing By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret Morning News (UT) February 18, 2007Add another probable carcinogen to the list of contaminants you can find at Hill Air Force Base. The 75th Air Base Wing said Friday that soil samples in a section of military family housing near the base's southwest gate yielded polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. About 100 homes are affected. Hill Air Force Base was declared a Superfund site in 1987 and added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List, because of trichloroethylene, or TCE, found in various groundwater plumes flowing off the base. ... For the entire article, see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660196645,00.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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