[CPEO-MEF] Former Brookley Air Force Base (AL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hazardous soil dug from Doyle Park


By BILL FINCH
Mobile Press-Register (AL)
August 31, 2007

Federal officials said that some 5,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil 
-- nearly 200 dump truckloads -- are being dug out of Doyle Park, a city 
recreational area near Mobile Bay.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing work on the old military 
waste site, in the Rosedale neighborhood at the southern tip of the 
Brookley Field Industrial Complex. Corps officials said the work was 
undertaken primarily to slow the spread of hazardous chemicals through 
the area's underground water.

A corps report about the site estimated that as much as 50 million 
gallons of underground water could be contaminated. The corps has 
determined that no one is currently using that groundwater as a drinking 
supply, though the contaminants are likely to end up in Mobile Bay.

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For the entire article see
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/118855194414050.xml&coll=3

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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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