2007 CPEO Military List Archive

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, 2007

Add 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.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660196645,00.html

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