[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Former Schilling Air Force Base (KS) settlement nears

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Mediation ends in contamination case


Salina Journal (KS)
March 26, 2012

Salina public entities and the United States of America have agreed  
to end mediation and push toward a settlement in the lengthy case of  
contamination at the former Schilling Air Force Base.

The base was closed in the mid-1960s and a plume of pollution,  
primarily the solvent TCE, or tricholoroethylene, is in the soil and  
groundwater that is moving toward city water wells.

The public entities, that includes the city of Salina, Salina Airport  
Authority, Salina School District and Kansas State University at  
Salina, filed a federal lawsuit in 2010, aiming for a settlement to  
clean up the pollution.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/mediation3-26-12

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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