[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FUDS: Former Herington Army Airfield (KS)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Raytheon on the Hook for Airport Contamination

By AVERY FELLOW
Courthouse News
January 4, 2010

(CN) - Government defense contractor Raytheon must pay nearly $3.2 
billion to clean up a Kansas airport contaminated with the degreasing 
agent trichloroethylene, the 10th Circuit ruled.

Raytheon had argued that the U.S. Army was also guilty of contaminating 
the airfield and should share in clean-up costs. But the Denver-based 
appeals court said Raytheon failed to show that the Army had actually 
used the toxic solvent at the former Herington Army Airfield in Morris 
County, Kan.

The contamination was discovered in the mid-1990s, after which Raytheon 
admitted that Beech Aircraft Corp., now part of Raytheon, had used 
trichloroethylene (TCE) in two vapor degreasers at the airport and 
stored the compound onsite while it operated the airport during the 1950s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/01/04/23313.htm

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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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