[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CLOSURE: EPA disputes Navy at Moffett Field (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA in dispute with Navy over Moffett Field cleanup

By Diana Samuels
Palo Alto Daily News (CA)
December 7, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is squaring off against the 
Navy for refusing to address toxic vapors at Moffett Field.

But the Navy insists the cleanup should be done by NASA, Moffett Field's 
current operator. NASA, meanwhile, apparently isn't interested in taking 
on the work.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Navy and several semiconductor, electronics 
and other high-tech companies leaked toxins -- primarily the solvent 
trichloroethene -- into soil and groundwater in the 
Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman area of Mountain View, as well as parts of 
Moffett Field. Toxic vapors have now risen into the air inside buildings 
in the area, according to the EPA. The agency says it doesn't believe 
the vapors pose immediate health risks, but it is concerned about 
long-term effects.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_16803175?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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