[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Hill Air Force Base (UT) plumes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill AFB to continue monitoring of plume

By Tanna Woods
Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT)
December 11, 2009

CLEARFIELD -- Three intermingled and contaminated plumes are not causing 
health risks to residents, and now plans are for continued monitoring 
through 2014 to determine the best course to fix the problem.

The Hill Air Force Base Environmental Restoration Directorate updated 
the Clearfield City Council regarding the indoor sampling program and 
groundwater contamination.

There are three plumes in the area, including a shallow trichloroethene 
(TCE) one found between 8 and 100 feet below the ground surface, a 
shallow tetrachloroethene (PCE) one found approximately 25 feet below 
the surface, and a deep TCE plume found between 175 and 290 feet below 
the surface.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.standard.net/topics/hafb/2009/12/11/hill-afb-continue-monitoring-plume

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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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