[CPEO-MEF] VOCs; National Guard gun-cleaner in Las Cruces (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

National Guard gun-cleaner was pollution source at Solano site

By Diana M. Alba
Las Cruces Sun-News (NM)
March 27, 2011

LAS 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.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_17711414?source=most_viewed

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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