[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Beale Air Force Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup focuses on solvent at Beale

By Ben van der Meer
Marysville Appeal-Democrat (CA)
September 7, 2011
A plan to clean up contaminated groundwater in and around Beale Air  
Force Base should get under way later this year, according to  
officials hosting a meeting tonight on the topic.

Three locations, out of 18 identified, have levels of a solvent -  
trichloroethylene - used at the base during World War II and the  
1950s, but largely abandoned since then.

"We're cleaning up things that are 60 years old," said Terry Escarda,  
a hazardous substances engineer with the state Department of Toxic  
Substances Control. "The concentrations aren't real high, but they're  
diffuse."

Trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, is dangerous mostly if inhaled.  
And testing on wells near the base show levels below the minimum safe  
level of one part per billion, Escarda said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/solvent-109746-beale-clean.html

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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
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