2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:30:44 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUNDING: Hill Air Force Base (UT)
 
Hill proposes $21.4 million green cleanup

By Joseph M. Dougherty
Deseret News (UT)
February 2, 2009

HILL AIR FORCE BASE - It's no secret that environmental cleanups cost money. Hill Air Force Base officials expect to spend $21.4 million on Hill's environmental restoration project for fiscal 2010.

That's $70,000 higher than the current year's budget, part of the money the U.S. Air Force has set aside for its bases that have been named as Superfund sites.

For more than a half century, groundwater plumes contaminated with potential carcinogens have been seeping from the base into seven surrounding communities: Layton, South Weber, Riverdale, Roy, Sunset, Clinton and Clearfield. Other contaminated areas have been found on the base, as well.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705282082,00.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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