[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Former Pease Air Force Base (NH) jet fuel cleanup

[Lenny Siegel]

Flammable vapors stifle Pease jet fuel cleanup project

By Shir Haberman
Portsmouth Herald News (NH)
December 26, 2008

PORTSMOUTH - The Pease International Tradeport looks like a pristine, 
well laid out, environmentally friendly industrial park, with its 
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified buildings, and 
tree-lined parking and buffer areas.

However, scratch the surface in several areas of the property and the 
remnants of a military air base that cared little for its impact on 
surrounding communities comes bubbling up.

One of those areas is just beneath the airport flight line where the Air 
Force had installed a jet fueling system in the early 1950s. Over its 
years of operation, the system began to leak, spewing quantities of jet 
fuel into the surrounding soils.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081226-NEWS-812260454

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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