[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: "Tyndall [AFB, FL] Elementary has minimal soil contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tyndall Elementary has minimal soil contamination


By Ed Offley 
Panama City News Herald (FL)
July 31, 2019 

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE - When base officials erected a temporary replacement fence around Tyndall Elementary School after Hurricane Michael, it inadvertently caused a “sliver” of ground potentially contaminated with lead to be located within the campus, Tyndall commander Col. Brian Laidlaw announced Wednesday.

Appearing at a press conference with Bay School District Superintendent Bill Husfelt, Laidlaw said the strip of contaminated soil was located far from the school grounds where students congregate outside and that his engineers had concluded after the discovery on Tuesday that the chances of anyone being exposed to “unhealthy levels” of lead were minimal.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsherald.com/news/20190731/tyndall-elementary-has-minimal-soil-contamination

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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