[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Casper Army Air Field, Casper, Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Regulators investigate Casper airport for WWII-era contamination

By TREVOR GRAFF
Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
July 25, 2014

The four-engine drone of the B-24 Liberator has long since faded at  
Casper/Natrona County International Airport.

But during World War II, the Casper Army Air Field, as it was then  
known, served as the final stop for bomber crews training for  
overseas assignments in Europe.

The bombers no longer inhabit the airport, but state and federal  
regulators don't know yet what they may have left behind.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Army Corps  
of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency are  
investigating 12 sites at the airport for remnants of environmental  
contaminants dating back to the time of the bombers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://trib.com/news/local/casper/regulators-investigate-casper- 
airport-for-wwii-era-contamination/article_987c64a9-d2bf-5ac7- 
a645-36d22cf177bf.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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