[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Lockbourne Air Force Base (OH) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Landfill-cap plan at Rickenbacker worries Lockbourne residents

Toxins too dangerous to stay there, they say

BY SPENCER HUNT
The Columbus Dispatch
May 4, 2011

A plan to clean up hazardous waste that the military buried in an old  
landfill at Rickenbacker Airport doesn't do enough to protect area  
residents and groundwater, Lockbourne village officials say.

From 1951 through 1979, garbage and other waste was routinely dumped  
on the ground and in open trenches dug in a 105-acre woods along the  
western edge of the former Lockbourne Air Force Base.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers analysis of that landfill, discussed  
during a public hearing on April 28 in Lockbourne, detected hazardous  
concentrations of toxic metals, compounds and PCBs in the soil and  
groundwater.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/05/04/ 
landfill-cap-plan-at-rickenbacker-worries-lockbourne-residents.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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