[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Former Schilling Air Force Base "clean up to cost $95 million"

[Lenny Siegel]

Salina environmental clean up to cost $95 million

By Jason Beets 
Salina Journal (KS)
May 2, 2019 
  
 
Officials from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) estimate it will cost $95 million to clean up soil and groundwater pollution at the former Schilling Air Force Base in South Salina.

Once KDHE finalizes its proposed remediation plan, the U.S. federal government and four local public entities will decide how to divide the cost of the expensive work. 

KDHE officials discussed their recommended methods for cleaning up the pollution during a presentation Wednesday evening at Salina’s City-County building. About 35 people attended, including representatives from the four local governments that own the land formerly belonging to the military base.

The pollution was created more than 50 years ago when personnel at Schilling Air Force Base, which was operated by the U.S. Department of Defense from 1942 to 1966, used toxic chemicals to clean airplanes. Those chemicals ended up in the soil beneath the base.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.salina.com/news/20190502/salina-environmental-clean-up-to-cost-95-million


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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