[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Actions being taken on jet fuel leak contaminating Union Creek, " Traavis Air Force Base, CA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Actions being taken on jet fuel leak contaminating Union Creek
The EPA issued an order for the Travis Air Force Base to take actions about the contamination of Union Creek more than a year since the leak was identified.

By Krys Shahin
ABC 10 TV News (Sacramento, CA)
May 11, 2023

FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Travis Air Force Base has “made progress” addressing a reported jet fuel oil spill into Union Creek, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to see more done. 

Since the EPA issued an order to the Air Force to take actions about the contamination of Union Creek, the base has reached out and scheduled a meeting with agencies for next week.

"The Air Force has made progress in containing oil it observed in Union Creek, but we want to see progress to preventing oil in the creek in the first place," said Tom Dunkelman, expert on the order and EPA on-scene coordinator for the Superfund and Emergency Management Division. 

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For the entire story, see
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/jet-fuel-leak-contaminating-union-creek-update/103-b816453b-b9d5-43c8-8520-42d72cb32200

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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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