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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[While other Defense Department installation restoration programs 
hesitate to sample indoor air for volatile organic compounds, Hill Air 
Force Base has used such sampling results to redraws its TCE groundwater 
plume. - LS]

HAFB to redraw its map showing pollution plume

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret Morning News (UT)
August 20, 2007

LAYTON - Hill Air Force Base is getting ready to redraw the map of a 
two-lobed plume of shallow groundwater contamination in Layton.

And though it may come as a surprise to some residents to find the plume 
is bigger than the current map shows, Hill officials want to reassure 
them the plume isn't moving.

"There's no evidence to suggest that," said Bob Elliott, the base's 
environmental restorations chief.

Over the past two years, base officials have been using new techniques 
to search for shallow groundwater contamination, and the Layton City 
Council recently got an update on those techniques.

But what started the investigation was the discovery of 
trichloroethylene, or TCE, vapors in homes outside of the plume's known 
area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695202556,00.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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