[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Toxic cleanup 75 percent done at former George Air Force Base" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic cleanup 75 percent done at former George Air Force Base

by Shea Johnson
Victorville Daily Press (CA)
February 27, 2014

VICTORVILLE • Ongoing since the early 1980s, an expected $150 million- 
plus cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater at the former  
George Air Force Base is roughly 75 percent complete, an Air Force  
Civil Engineer Center spokeswoman said Wednesday. However, she said  
remnants of some chemicals may stick around for five centuries.

During the base’s active years between 1941 and 1992, routine  
aircraft maintenance tasks spilled or leaked contaminants such as jet  
fuel, gasoline, paints and solvents into the ground and water.  
Pesticides used in the base’s housing area also polluted the  
environment. George was placed on the Environmental Protection  
Agency’s National Priorities List in 1990.

Of 213 problem sites at the 5,062-acre facility, now Southern  
California Logistics Airport, 171 sites have so far been remedied,  
according to AFCEC spokeswoman Linda Geissinger.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.vvdailypress.com/articles/toxic-45291-done-victorville.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
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