[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS: Wyle Labs soil cleanup, Norco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup of contaminated soil at former Wyle Laboratories in Norco begins

By ALICIA ROBINSON
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
July 12, 2008

A weeklong excavation set to begin Monday will remove a small amount of 
contaminated soil from the former Wyle Laboratories property in Norco, 
state officials in charge of the cleanup said.

About 105 cubic yards of soil tainted with lead, perchlorate and 
polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, will be dug up and trucked to 
a dumpsite north of Bakersfield, said Rafat Abbasi, senior project 
manager with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

The department is overseeing cleanup at Wyle, a 429-acre site where 
aerospace and defense products were tested for more than 40 years. The 
lab closed in 2004 but investigations have found varying levels of known 
or suspected carcinogens on the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_wwyle13.49fde5e.html

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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
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