[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One cork room to be dismantled

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Walls of Hangar One's cork room are contaminated, must be removed, Navy says

By Diana Samuels
Palo Alto Daily News/San Jose Mercury News (CA)
August 4, 2010

Hangar One's historic "cork room" will likely lose its cork.

The cork is simply too contaminated and must be removed from the Moffett 
Field hangar in Mountain View, the U.S. Navy has concluded.

The long, narrow cork room on the hangar's third floor originally stored 
the gas cells that kept airships aloft. It was slated for demolition 
along with most interior structures in the PCB-laden hangar, but at the 
urging of preservationists the Navy agreed last month to analyze samples 
from the walls to determine whether they were contaminated.

Now, the Navy says the cork room's 6-inch-thick cork walls -- used as 
insulation to keep the room temperature-controlled for the fragile cells 
-- are just too contaminated.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15671181?nclick_check=1
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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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