[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, VOCs: Report on Chanute Air Force Base (IL) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force says no Agent Orange used on base

Dave Hinton
Rantoul Press (IL)
May 20, 2014.

RANTOUL - The project manager for a company in charge of cleanup  
efforts at the former Chanute Air Force Base said environmental  
concerns about Agent Orange and other agents are unfounded.

One by one, Howard Sparrow, project manager for CB&I Inc.,  
Greenville, S.C., addressed areas of concern about public drinking  
water supply, private wells, Agent Orange and low levels of dioxins.

Water quality issue. Speaking at last Thursday’s Chanute Restoration  
Advisory Board meeting, Sparrow addressed a comment that indicated in  
2008, the federal government warned the village of Rantoul and  
Chanute Air Force Base that they should notify all children, elderly  
and infants with health problems that the water had contaminants and  
that they should not drink the water.

"The Air Force's response to that is that is not a true statement,"  
Sparrow said. "The village of Rantoul drinking water supply is  
perfectly safe for the public to drink."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rantoulpress.com/news/environment/2014-05-20/air-force- 
says-no-agent-orange-used-base.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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