[CPEO-MEF] CLEAN-UP: Kelly Air Force Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Frustration lingers over AFB pollution
Government has spent millions cleaning up, and testing continues.

By Don Finley
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 9, 2011

For almost a century, generations of workers at the former Kelly AFB  
cleaned, refueled and repainted military aircraft, from the earliest  
Curtiss biplanes to the cavernous C-5 Galaxy transport jets.

As they serviced those aircraft, a considerable amount of fuels and  
chemicals spilled, contaminating the soil and a shallow aquifer a  
couple of dozen feet below ground.

Over the years, that contaminated water spread for miles beneath the  
base and thousands of surrounding homes and businesses in three  
separate plumes. It raised fears of cancer and other health problems,  
and anger over plummeting property values.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/ 
Frustrationlingersover-AFBpollution-1459655.php

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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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