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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kingman sues Corps of Engineers over dross from post-WWII smelting work

Doug McMurdo
Kingman Daily Miner 
August 26, 2013

KINGMAN - The city has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding ground contamination at the Kingman Airport and Industrial Park.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the city of Kingman by Phoenix-based law firm Gust Rosenfeld PLC, seeks to compel the Corps of Engineers to clean up about 15 acres of airport land that was polluted shortly after World War II when roughly 5,600 surplus warplanes were smelted for their aluminum at what was then the Kingman Army Air Field and Gunnery Range.

The Wunderlich Company, a government contractor, conducted the 10-month, 24/7 smelting operation on what is now Taxiway B.

Dross, a heavy metal-contaminated byproduct of smelted aluminum, was left in mounds on the surface or buried in shallow pits and trenches.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubsectionID=1&ArticleID=57713

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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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