[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Groundwater contamination from Hill Air Force Base, (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

37 Clearfield homes to be sampled for water contamination

By Tanna Woods
Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT)
December 23, 2011

CLEARFIELD -- Groundwater contamination is not causing any problems  
for Clearfield residents, according to continuing studies being done  
by the base.

Shannon Smith, from the Hill Air Force Base environmental restoration  
directorate, updated the city council about the indoor sampling  
program and groundwater contamination recently during a regularly  
meeting.

A number of communities surrounding HAFB have contaminated areas of  
groundwater -- not drinking water -- from chemicals historically  
disposed of on base, according to a base report. The Clearfield  
contamination generally consists of shallow trichloroethene and  
tetrachloroethene, plus a deeper trichloroethene plume.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/12/23/37-clearfield-homes-be- 
sampled-water-contamination

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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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