[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Possible migration from Wurtsmith Air Force Base (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MDEQ to test pollution venting to Van Etten

by Karen Rouse
Oscoda Press (MI)
February 24, 2009

OSCODA - The Oscoda Township Board of Trustees met Monday night and 
granted permission to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality 
(MDEQ) to access Ken Ratliff Memorial Park.

The access was to allow the state agency to test the Van Etten Lake 
shoreline to determine if historical contamination found at Wurtsmith 
Air Force Base is venting to the lake.

According to Mark Henry, MDEQ senior environmental engineer and project 
manager, three suspect areas of contamination that may be migrating 
off-base were never thoroughly investigated by the U.S. Air Force. He 
cited one area by the main gate, one by the Knights of Columbus Hall and 
one at the southeastern area of the runway near Ratliff park.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oscodapress.com/articles/2009/02/25/news/news02.txt

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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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