[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Shaw Air Force Base (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Shaw's waste discussed at meeting

By ANNABELLE ROBERTSON
Sumter Item (SC)
June 10, 2009

The state Department of Health and Environmental Control held a public 
meeting on Monday evening to discuss a proposed permit renewal for Shaw 
Air Force Base. The meeting, held at Oakland Elementary School and 
hosted by DHEC, described the regulation of corrective activities for 
the base, which are the subject of the permit.

The 10-year permit will expire on July 9. DHEC is proposing that it be 
renewed for another 10 years.

According to Rachel L. Donica Poole, an associate engineer with DHEC, 
after the base opened in 1941 to train cadets to fly in combat during 
World War II, Shaw began generating various sorts of waste that are now 
recognized as hazardous. These included both fuel waste (jet fuel, 
diesel and gasoline) and solvent waste, which came from the maintenance 
of aircraft, support vehicles, buildings and structures on base.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theitem.com/article/20090610/ITNEWS01/706109951/-1/ITNEWS

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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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