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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corps groundwater contamination cleanup on hold

By MICHAEL STRAND
Salina Journal
December 7, 2007

Much of the work by the Army Corps of Engineers to clean up groundwater
contamination at the former Schilling Air Force Base is on hold until
the corps and the local government entities that own the land decide who
will run the project from now on.

The corps has for years been working with the Salina Airport Authority,
the Salina School District, Kansas State University at Salina and the
city of Salina on measuring the extent of the solvent trichloroethylene
and how it's migrating. Three weeks ago, Robyn Kieffer, who is managing
project cleanup for the Corps of Engineers, told the Salina Journal that
the corps and those organizations were in talks about turning over
responsibility for directing the cleanup.

An agreement is expected after the first of the year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/rdnews/story/120707_rab_meets_no_more

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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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