[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy: No toxins detected under El Toro runways
Concerns raised about drinking water safety as contaminated water is 
pumped out from the former Marine Corps base.

By Sarah Peters
Daily Pilot/Los Angeles Times
September 18, 2010


IRVINE - The U.S. Navy did not detect toxins beneath the former El Toro 
Marine Base's runways and progress is steadily being made on a plume of 
contamination beneath other sections of the former base, residents were 
told at last week's City Council meeting.

The Navy plans to reevaluate its findings every five years, and if 
traces of trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical solvent used on the base 
in the 1970s, are detected in new areas, the Navy will continue to clean 
it up, said Jim Callian, Navy Base Realignment and Closure environmental 
coordinator for El Toro.

As it is, nearly 3,000 acres at the former base have been remediated, or 
cleaned up, by the Navy. The Irvine Ranch Water District, the Great Park 
Corp. and the city attorney's office are also working with the Navy in 
the clean-up efforts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-0919-irvine-20100917,0,3272007.story

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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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