[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, VOCs: Myrtle Beach meeting report

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plan says cleaning old SC base to take 12 years

The Associated Press
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
July 23, 2008

It will take another 12 years to clean cancer-causing pesticides and 
other contaminates from groundwater at the old Myrtle Beach Air Force 
Base, environmental officials and the military say .

It will cost about $723,000 to clean contamination from a shop where 
pesticides were stored for 15 years at the base which closed in 1993, 
the military said. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported the 
contamination has also moved to four acres of private land next to the base.

The project would involve cleaning up cancer-causing pesticides and 
solvents including trichloroethylene and vinyl chloride.

Some residents were not pleased with the plan announced Tuesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/575/story/529926.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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