[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, REUSE: Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contamination rages on years after base closes

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
May 25, 2008

High levels of environmental contamination still exist at the former 
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base more than 15 years after the military left, 
but experts say the pollution is not affecting new retail and 
residential developments there.

The contamination also is not related to groundwater pollution 
discovered last year in a roughly 10-block neighborhood near the AVX 
Corp. manufacturing facility, which is located adjacent to the base, 
according to state and federal officials.

Environmental tests over the past three years show chemicals such as 
benzene, vinyl chloride and trichloroethylene, or TCE, exist in 
groundwater at the former military base at levels far above what the 
Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for drinking water.

The groundwater has not been used for drinking water since 1999, but 
state and federal regulators still require the military to reduce 
pollution to those standards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/462491.html

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