[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Hill Air Force Base testing indoor air for contaminants from groundwater vapor"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hill Air Force Base testing indoor air for contaminants from groundwater vapor

By Ryan Aston
Ogden Standard-Examiner
September 24, 2024

As summer gives way to the fall/winter heating season, Hill Air Force Base will resume its testing of indoor air from homes and businesses in communities where historical practices at the base resulted in the chemical contamination of shallow groundwater.

While that groundwater is not used for drinking, residents in pocket areas of Weber and Davis counties potentially could be exposed to chemicals like trichloroethylene, or TCE, via vapor intrusion.

Vapor intrusion occurs when vapor-forming chemicals migrate from a subsurface source into an overlying building. Shallow plumes — groundwater bodies containing contaminants — exist in specific areas of Sunset, Clinton, Layton, Riverdale, Roy and South Weber.

Since 2001, the air has been tested in some 3,220 homes both inside and outside of the affected areas via Hill’s Indoor Air Sampling Program, or IAP. Additional testing was conducted prior to the IAP’s official launch.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.standard.net/news/military/2024/sep/24/hill-air-force-base-testing-indoor-air-for-contaminants-from-groundwater-vapor/

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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
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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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