[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Schilling Air Force Base (KS) TCE mediation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Talks start in Oct. on Salina TCE lawsuit

By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
Associated Press/Belleville News-Democrat
September 25, 2011

The first mediation sessions have been scheduled for next month in an  
ongoing fight over cleaning up contamination at a former U.S. Air  
Force base in Salina.

Officials from the city of Salina, the Salina Airport Authority the  
Salina school district and Kansas State University-Salina filed a  
federal lawsuit in Kansas City, Kan., last year in a bid to expedite  
cleaning up soil and groundwater polluted decades ago with an  
industrial degreaser and other chemicals at the former Schilling Air  
Force Base.

Salina acquired the base when it closed in 1965. The site is now home  
to Kansas State University-Salina, Salina Municipal Airport and  
Salina Technical School. The plaintiffs contend that the federal  
government should pay for the cleanup because the chemicals came from  
the Air Force operation at the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bnd.com/2011/09/25/1874417/talks-start-in-oct-on-salina- 
tce.html#0_undefined,0_

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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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