[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: City has concerns at Dallas Navy Plant (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Plan to Sell Polluted Dallas Land Doesn't Sit Well with City

By RUDOLPH BUSH
Dallas News (TX)
December 2,  2011

After years of trying, the U.S. Navy is close to selling a stretch of  
severely polluted industrial land in western Dallas where military  
equipment and aircraft parts have been produced for decades.

But the city of Dallas has expressed serious concerns about the  
Navy’s proposed plan to clean up a toxic soup of heavy metals,  
petroleum, cyanide, herbicides and other poisons that permeate the  
land and groundwater and sediment bedding a small lake called  
Cottonwood Bay.

Dallas officials also wonder if the Navy’s plan doesn’t run afoul of  
a 2002 settlement between the city and the Navy over the cleanup of  
the adjacent Hensley Field.

Further complicating the issue is worry about the future of the  
Triumph-Vought aircraft manufacturing plant and 2,700 employees who  
work on the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://dallasdrilling.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/us-navy-tries-minimal- 
clean-up-mountain-creek-lake-city-of-dallas-sayswhoa/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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