[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, DEMOLITION: "Navy signs $6 million contract to clean up site of Tustin [CA] blimp hangar fire"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy signs $6 million contract to clean up site of Tustin blimp hangar fire

By GARY WARNER  
STARS AND STRIPES 
December 20, 2023

The Navy has agreed to pay more than $6 million to demolish and remove remnants of a World War II-era blimp hangar in Southern California that was destroyed last month in a fire, service officials said Wednesday.

The fire destroyed one of two historic hangars, and concerns over environmental contamination forced some schools, parks and businesses near the former Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin to close. The base was shut down in 1999.

The Navy said ECC Environmental LCC, an international company with its headquarters in Burlingame, Calif., near San Francisco, was awarded the $6.03 million to handle the cleanup. The company has 14 offices worldwide and has been contracted frequently to build or dismantle military structures.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-12-20/marine-corps-hangar-tustin-fire-navy-12423208.html

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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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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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