[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, HEALTH: "Kelly [Air Force Base, TX] contamination cleanup continues 20 years later"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kelly contamination cleanup continues 20 years later

by Barry Davis 
KENS TV-5 News (San Antonio, TX)
February 19, 2014 

SAN ANTONIO -- Kelly Field was the first Air Force base in the country and home once to thousands of military and civilian workers.

The Base Realignment and Closure operations of the 90s shuttered her doors. Now it is Port San Antonio, an industrial park.

Before the base closed, massive contamination was found in the ground and in a shallow aquifer which ran under Kelly and through surrounding neighborhoods. The contamination was from a number of known and suspected cancer-causing chemicals used to clean aircraft parts on the base.

Once the contamination was discovered, the Air Force began cleaning up both on and after somewhat of a battle off base. The on-base cleanup consisted of soil removal and the building of impermeable berms to prevent the contamination from continuing to contaminate the aquifer off base.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.kens5.com/news/Kelly-contamination-cleanup-continues-246073611.html

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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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