[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: McGuire Air Force Base (NJ) Federal Facilities Agreement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to oversee cleanup of hazardous chemicals at McGuire Air Force Base


BY JOE TYRRELL
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
September 18, 2009

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will oversee 
additional investigation and cleanup of hazardous chemicals at McGuire 
Air Force Base in Burlington County.

The EPA added the 3,500-acre site by Wrightstown to its Superfund list 
in 1999. Investigators identified four sources of wastes in 1984, 
including the release of nickel and mercury into bodies of water, plus 
PCBs and inorganic hazardous substances in soil and water and volatile 
organic compounds that easily evaporate into air.

But those initial findings comprise only "a portion of the area of 
concern" on the base, which began as a U.S. Army facility in 1937 but 
has been under Air Force control since 1948.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/epa-to-oversee-cleanup-of-hazardous-chemicals-at-mcguire-air-force-base

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org




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