[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Cleanup progresses at former Schilling Air Force Base (KS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination Cleanup Project Progressing
KSAL Radio (Salina, KS)
April 22, 2016 

Officials offered an update Friday morning on contamination in and around the area of the Salina Regional Airport.

At issue is contamination, things like solvents that have seeped into the ground, left behind when the federal government vacated the former Schilling Air Force Base. The area is now the Salina Regional Airport. The main concern is two large underground plumes of contamination, one in the north part of the Airport Industrial Area, and another on the south end. A large plume of the solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, is in the groundwater and soil. TCE at the time was used as an industrial solvent and has since been classified as a human carcinogen.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ksal.com/contamination-cleanup-project-progressing/

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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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