[CPEO-MEF] Fort Worth (TX) Air Force Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PCBs likely came from Lockheed, agency says

Fort Worth Star-Telegram - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
December 30, 2007

The pollution that has made it unsafe to eat fish from Lake Worth most 
likely came from the Lockheed Martin plant, according to tests by the 
U.S. Geological Survey.

There's no danger to people who swim in the lake or to the city water 
supply, according to the government tests and the Air Force, which owns 
the plant. But the Air Force has not met a goal set in 1995 of reducing 
the pollution to a level where it won't endanger fish in the lake, and 
more tests are going on.

The pollutants are continuing to enter the lake.

"It's small quantities, not like a continuous flow," said George 
Walters, the Air Force's restoration project manager. "We're talking a 
handful every time it rains."

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