[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Contract approved at former Schilling Air Force Base (KS)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Airport Contamination Cleanup Project Progressing

KSAL (Salina, KS)
June 20, 2013

The City of Salina in a special meeting Thursday afternoon moved a  
stop closer to cleaning up contamination at the Salina Regional  
Airport. City commissioners unanimously approved entering into a  
contract with the Dragun Corporation to put together a plan to begin  
the cleanup.

Since 1999 local officials have been trying to get federal help in  
cleaning up contamination that was left when the military vacated  
Schilling Airforce Base in the late 1960s.

At issue is contamination, things like solvents that have seeped into  
the ground, left behind when the Air Force vacated the base. The area  
is now the Salina Regional Airport.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=27650&format=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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