[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Sioux City (IA) airport

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

1940's airport contamination site to finally be cleaned-up


KTIV TV-4 News (Sioux City, IA)
June 28, 2010

SIOUX CITY, Iowa  -  After three decades of waiting for the federal 
government to clean up an underground mess at the airport, Sioux City's 
closer to getting the job done on their own.

Monday night, they hired a company to evaluate the pools of jet fuel 
underneath Sioux Gateway's airfield.

The source of that contamination is underground fuel tanks that date 
back to World War Two.

When the leak was first discovered in the early 80's, the city expected 
the federal government to pick-up the tab.

...

For the entire story, see http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12724218

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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>
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