[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Former Orion Park Housing Area at Moffett Field, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army: toxic cleanup is not our problem

Despite investigation, source of Orion Park's toxics still mysterious

Activists and regulators are at odds with the U.S. Army over toxics  
contaminating Orion Park, a former housing complex site just outside  
Moffett Field.

While toxics have been found in groundwater samples and even in the  
indoor air of homes once on the site, the Army's draft "site  
investigation" report for Orion Park recommends the toxics not be  
cleaned up by the Army and "recommends no further action for the TCE  
plume underlying the Site."

The Army's position hinges on the claim that there was no on-site  
source of the toxics, which could put the cleanup responsibility on  
someone else.

"Because no sources of TCE were found on site, the Army plans to seek  
site closure," the report concludes.

...

"You are required by law to protect people even if they are your own  
people," Siegel said of the Army and its staff and soldiers who now  
use the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=5456

--

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

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org