[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "It is time to 'turn some dirt'" at the former Schilling Air Force Base, KS

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schilling cleanup: It is time to 'turn some dirt'

 
By TIM UNRUH
Salina Airport Authority
April 29, 2021

Two more milestones have been notched in a 22-year effort to clean up former Schilling AFB environmental contamination.

The Salina City Commission approved on Monday, April 26 the consulting and engineering contract with Dragun Corp., which will map plans to clean up pollution in, under and around the former base.

On April 12 the Kansas Department of Health & Environment approved an amended Consent Agreement and Final Order, also moved the process along this spring at the former military compound that operated from 1942 to 1965. Shortly after its closure, the base was repurposed to form a vital economic engine for Salina and Saline County.

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For the entire release, see
https://salinapost.com/posts/5b0b11cc-b961-483f-bdc6-fd0e85f726f1

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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
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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