[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Kingman Airport [AK] contamination lawsuit might be resolved"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kingman Airport contamination lawsuit might be resolved

Doug McMurdo
Fairbanks Daily Miner (AK)
March 13, 2016

KINGMAN - The City Council will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. Monday when members go into closed session with City Attorney Carl Cooper to discuss a potential settlement regarding the Kingman Airport and Industrial Park dross litigation.

Dross, a byproduct of smelted aluminum, has wrecked about 15 acres of airport tarmac for decades. 

The problem is the result of smelting that occurred right after World War II. Kingman was home to soldiers and Army Air Corps pilots who trained here for both bombing and gunnery actions. Following the war, roughly 5,000 out-of-service airplanes were scrapped and smelted for their aluminum over a 10-month period.

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For the entire article, see
http://kdminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=69294

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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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