[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Environmentalists question plan for Scott Air Force Base landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmentalists question Air Force plan to spend $4.6 million to  
clean up old Scott Air Force Base landfill

By MIKE FITZGERALD
Belleville News-Democrat (IL)
June 5, 2013

MASCOUTAH - After spending more than $20 million capping Scott Air  
Force Base's defunct landfill, the U.S. Air Force plans to spend  
another $4.6 million monitoring the site for chemical contaminants  
over the next 30 years.

But the monitoring plan -- which was unveiled during a public hearing  
Wednesday night at the MidAmerica St. Louis Airport passenger  
terminal -- received a lackluster response from representatives of  
environmental groups present.

A representative of the Air Force contractor overseeing the cleanup  
presented four alternative plans.

The first plan called for taking no action at all, while the second  
-- the preferred option -- called for spending $4.6 million on the  
monitoring of contaminants such as iron and arsenic that could move  
into nearby Mosquito and Silver creeks.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.bnd.com/2013/06/05/2645049/environmentalists-question- 
air.html

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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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