[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, VOCs: "Titan Missile Site Remediation Committee discusses contamination issues with Lincoln [CA] residents"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Titan Missile Site Remediation Committee discusses contamination issues with Lincoln residents

By Veronica Catlin
Gold Country Media
March 15, 2023


Nearly 600 concerned citizens attended a March 8 presentation to talk about the next steps to clean up toxic chemicals at the Lincoln Titan 1 Missile Silo Complex in Sun City Lincoln Hills.

Some of those chemicals include benzene, lead and xylenes, and trichloroethylene or TCE.

A TCE plume has spread from the missile site to properties on the other side of Oak Tree Lane and is moving closer to Sun City Lincoln Hills homes, according to a Jan. 19 Lincoln News Messenger article, “Lincoln's defunct missile site contamination has spread.” 

The contamination was discovered in 1991. A plan by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 was never acted upon because the agencies could not agree on which agency was responsible for cleanup, according to the article. 


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For the entire article, see
https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/272516/titan-missile-site-remediation-committee-discusses-contamination-issues-with-lincoln-resident/

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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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