[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, PFAS, VOCs: "Dallas [TX] files complaint against U.S. government over former Navy base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dallas files complaint against U.S. government over former Navy base

By Tasha Tsiaperas
Axios Dallas (TX)
August 4, 2023

The City of Dallas is seeking damages from the federal government for failing to clean up environmental contamination at a former Navy airfield the city wants to redevelop for housing.

Driving the news: Dallas filed a complaint with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims this week alleging that the federal government breached its contract to clean the groundwater and land the U.S. Navy used for 50 years.

• The Navy agreed to clean up the property within 15 years but missed its 2017 deadline.

Why it matters: The City Council approved a master plan in December that reimagines the 738-acre plat in southwest Dallas, near the border of Grand Prairie, as a neighborhood with up to 7,000 housing units, 7.5 miles of trails, acres of parkland, and retail space.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2023/08/04/dallas-complaint-us-navy-environment-remediation

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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