[CPEO-MEF] Hill AFB (UT) housing PCBs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hill removing tons of PCB-tainted soil

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret Morning News (UT)
September 25, 2007

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - Hill Air Force Base officials expect to remove up 
to 1,800 cubic yards of soil from an area of base housing where a 
potential carcinogen was found earlier this year.

The cleanup process, which involves removing 4 feet of earth, testing 
for contaminants and filling the hole with clean soil, is expected to be 
completed mid-November, said Ray Spencer, the base's construction 
manager for the cleanup.

Spencer is charged with overseeing the removal of polychlorinated 
biphenyls, or PCBs, from Area F of the base's housing. About 100 homes 
are in the area, though only a handful of those are directly affected.

In February, as Boyer Hill Military Housing tested the soil for 
pesticides around the homes, located on the base's west side, tests came 
back with PCBs, which are a mixture of 209 chemicals that were produced 
until 1977 and were used as an insulating material in transformers and 
other electrical equipment.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695213074,00.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>
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