[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Residents voice concerns about groundwater contamination near former Willow Grove [PA] base"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents voice concerns about groundwater contamination near former  
Willow Grove base

By Mark D. Marotta

21st Century Media News Service/Montgomery News (PA)
June 17, 2015

HORSHAM - Audience members’ concerns and questions about groundwater  
contamination in the area of the former Willow Grove base were front  
and center at the Restoration Advisory Board’s June 10 meeting.



Several dozen members of the public attended the meeting held at the  
Horsham Township Public Library. According to the public notice for  
the meeting, which was the 57th the RAB had held over the years, its  
purpose was "to discuss comments or concerns that the community and  
RAB members may have regarding environmental issues at the former  
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) Willow Grove and the  
former Air Force Reserve Station (ARS), Willow Grove."



As Willie Lin, RAB co-chairman and environmental coordinator with the  
Navy Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) office, provided an update  
on the status of radiological surveys on the former base, a woman in  
the audience asked about how long groundwater contamination in the  
area had been known about. Lin replied that he would address that  
topic later in the meeting.



...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2015/06/17/ 
public_spirit_willow_grove_guide/news/doc5582252d0084d760355497.txt

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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>
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