[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs,: Pratt (KS) airport

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FAA upgrades Pratt airport

By Gale Rose
The Pratt Tribune (KS)
September 12, 2008

Pratt, Kan. -

The Pratt Industrial Airport status was elevated from a business airport 
to a regional airport. The change in status will allow for more growth 
at the airport.

...

The airport still has a carbon tetrachloride problem. The Army Corps of 
Engineers said the presence of carbon tetrachloride in the soil at the 
base was not their problem and the airport would have to take care of 
the matter their selves.

The Corps of Engineers suggests that grain stored in an airport hangar 
was fumigated with carbon tetrachloride and it somehow managed to leech 
into the soil and contaminated the water wells on the base. The level of 
contamination exceeds the exposure limit for human contact and that well 
is only used to fight fires. The contamination in the other well doesn’t 
exceed the minimums but that water is not used for drinking water, Bell 
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pratttribune.com/news/x332631545/FAA-upgrades-Pratt-airport

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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