[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Salina [KS] entities to vote on Schilling settlement"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Salina entities to vote on Schilling settlement

By Jean Kozubowski
Salina Journal (KS)
June 23, 2020 

Salina Public Entities will vote at a joint meeting today whether to accept a $65.9 million settlement from the U.S. government related to the cost of cleaning up a contamination plume at the former Schilling Air Force Base.

Representatives of the city of Salina, USD 305, Kansas State University and the Salina Airport Authority, collectively known as Salina Public Entities, will vote whether to accept a negotiated consent decree at 1:30 p.m. today in Heritage Hall at Tony Pizza Events Center.

The entities learned in the 1990s that a plume of pollution, primarily the solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, is in the soil and groundwater and is moving toward city water wells.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.salina.com/news/20200623/salina-entities-to-vote-on-schilling-settlement

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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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