[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (SC) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military to speed up site cleanup
7-year outline could be picked over 12-year plan

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
September 17, 2008

The military likely will spend a little more money to shave five years 
off the projected cleanup time for groundwater contamination at a site 
on and near the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, according to a plan 
outlined Tuesday for the facility's Restoration Advisory Board.

That news comes less than two months after some residents complained 
during a public hearing that the military was putting finances ahead of 
health concerns at the site, known as the Old Entomology Shop.

The military has proposed two cleanup plans for the area, which sits 
near the border of the base along Emory Road. In July, the military said 
it probably would proceed with a 12-year plan costing $723,000. An 
alternate plan would take seven years and cost $1.1 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/597448.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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