[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Former Calumet Air Force base on Mount Horace Greeley (MI)

[Lenny Siegel]

Evasive Measures: Air Force dragging its heels on reporting brownfield tests


by GRAHAM JAEHNIG
Daily Mining Gazette (MI)
MAY 3, 2019

EAGLE RIVER — The Keweenaw County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is still waiting for a report from the Air Force, nearly two years after water testing and soil testing was done at the former Calumet Air Force base on Mount Horace Greeley.

Testing of groundwater and soils were conducted during the summer of 2017, five years after phase 1 and phase 2 environmental assessments were conducted on the site, which determined several hazardous materials both groundwater and soil samples. Also identified was the presence of lead-based paint and asbestos.

Several of the substances exceeded the limits established by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mininggazette.com/news/2019/05/evasive-measures-air-force-dragging-its-heels-on-reporting-brownfield-tests/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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