[CPEO-MEF] Former Schilling Air Force Base (KS) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Testing finds TCE
Chemical detected at former Salina base

By DUANE SCHRAG
Salina Journal (KS)
April 27, 2007

High concentrations of a solvent commonly associated with liquid oxygen 
plants have been detected near the spot where the former Schilling Air 
Force Base's liquid oxygen plant was located.

Local officials had predicted that trichloroethylene would be found in 
groundwater and soil on the northeast side of the former base in west 
Salina. A new round of soil and groundwater testing by the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers found TCE concentrations as high as 7,700 parts per 
billion. The limit for drinking water is 5 ppb.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=11918&format=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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