[CPEO-MEF] Rocket test site near former Mather AFB (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Toxic cleanup plan published for Mather area

By Roger Phelps
Folsom Telegraph (CA)
November 6, 2007

Still working on a contamination problem learned of 10 years ago at a 
rocket-test site near the former Mather Air Force Base, the state has a 
comprehensive cleanup plan on which it invites public comment.

Several interim cleanup actions of rocket-fuel residue in water have 
already come at the former test site. McDonnell Douglas Corp. and 
Aerojet-General Corp. tested rocket engines there between 1956 and 1969. 
Cleanup of toxic perchlorate and trichloroethene in groundwater began in 
2002 and expanded in 2005 and 2006.

"The principal contaminant is perchlorate," said project manager Ed 
Cargile of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.

Perchlorate is used as an oxidizer in rocket fuel. In h


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For the entire article, see
http://folsomtelegraph.com/articles/2007/11/07/news/top_stories/03toxic.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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