[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Glenview Naval Air Station (IL) former burn pit and landfill

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents Challenge Navy Over Cleanup Plans For Former NASG Landfill

By Tom Robb
Journal and Topics (IL)
March 5, 2026

Approximately 70 residents gathered at the Glenview Park Center on Tuesday (March 3) to question Navy officials regarding the planned cleanup of a former burn pit and landfill at the site of the decommissioned Naval Air Station Glenview (NASG).

The 2.2-acre area, known as Site 26, is located off Buccaneer Drive in The Glen residential development. Navy officials, joined by state environmental and natural resource representatives, detailed a three-phase plan to remove contaminated soil and return the fenced-off land to green space.

The site operated as a disposal and burn area during the 1950s and 1960s, containing household refuse, construction debris, and solvents. A 2005 assessment identified the presence of benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogen, in the soil.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/residents-challenge-navy-over-cleanup-plans-for-former-nasg-landfill/

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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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