[CPEO-MEF] CONTRACTORS, VOCs: "Boeing continues to test Kent [Washington] Space Center site for contamination"

[Lenny Siegel]

Boeing continues to test Kent Space Center site for contamination
State Department of Ecology overseeing remedial investigation

By Steve Hunter
Kent Reporter (WA)
October 24, 2019 

Boeing continues to sample soil, groundwater, indoor air and water and sediment in its stormwater system at the Kent Space Center for contamination.

The company began tests in 2016 under a cleanup order from the state Department of Ecology, which is overseeing the remedial investigation to determine the type, location and concentrations of contamination on the site west of the West Valley Highway (68th Avenue South) and south of South 196th Street.

“Boeing will collect data starting fall 2019 through spring 2020 to support the remedial investigation,” said Boeing spokeswoman Holly Braithwaite in an email Oct. 14. “Groundwater sampling is conducted at seven existing monitoring wells on the property. Soil sampling was recently completed in an area where a building was recently demolished.”


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https://www.kentreporter.com/news/boeing-continues-to-test-kent-space-center-site-for-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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