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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Layton homes tested for volatile vapors

Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT)
July 5, 2010

LAYTON -- Hill Air Force Base continues to sample the indoor air of 
Layton homes situated above shallow, contaminated groundwater plumes, as 
the base works to mitigate any volatile vapors coming off the groundwater.

Base officials attended the Layton City Council meeting last week to 
provide city leaders with an annual update of the long-term cleanup of 
Operable Unit No. 8.

That area, as defined by the base, is where groundwater plumes 
contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,2 DCA -- chemicals 
originating from a degreaser the base used for years for aircraft -- 
have flowed off base and into area neighborhoods.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.standard.net/topics/safety/2010/07/05/layton-homes-tested-volatile-vapors

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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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