From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:54:34 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VOCs; National Guard gun-cleaner in Las Cruces (NM) |
National Guard gun-cleaner was pollution source at Solano site By Diana M. Alba Las Cruces Sun-News (NM) March 27, 2011LAS CRUCES - The National Guard's use of a gun-cleaning chemical for more than four decades at a former armory site off North Solano Drive is to blame for most groundwater pollution at a federally designated cleanup site, a city-county study found. And, officials with the city of Las Cruces and Do-a Ana County said they're concerned the National Guard hasn't been forced to pay its share of the $15 million to $20 million remediation project. The chemical perchloroethylene, or PCE, was used and dumped on bare ground at the former armory, on the northwest corner of North Solano Drive and East Hadley Avenue, according to a city-county investigation that included interviews of former guardsmen. The land - leased and owned by the National Guard between 1947 and 1990 - now is the site of a boxing gym and the city's new aquatics center. ... For the entire article, see http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_17711414?source=most_viewed -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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