[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ASBESTOS: Chanute Air Force Base (IL) steam pipelines

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force done with asbestos cleanup on ex-base pipes

By Tom Kacich
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
May 15, 2009

RANTOUL - The Air Force has completed the removal and cleanup of 6,000 
feet of asbestos-coated pipeline on the south side of the old Chanute 
Air Force Base.

But it won't be cleaning up the rest of the remnants of the old steam 
pipelines that criss-crossed the base, said Paul Carroll, an 
environmental coordinator for the Air Force Real Property Agency.

Removing the above-ground steam line cost the Air Force $150,000 to 
$200,000, Carroll said.

"It was an operation that was not required under our agreement," he 
said. "But we decided to do it out of concern for human health and 
goodwill, I guess you'd say, because the village could not afford to do it."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2009/05/15/air_force_done_with_asbestos_cleanup_on_ex-base_pipes
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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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