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

On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote:

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
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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>

http://www.cpeo.org