12 more years to clean groundwater at Myrtle

[unhappycamper]

Source: Air Force Times / Associated Press

12 more years to clean groundwater at Myrtle
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jul 24, 2008 6:46:42 EDT

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — It will take another 12 years to clean cancer-causing pesticides and other contaminates from groundwater at the old Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, environmental officials and the military said.

It will cost about $723,000 to clean contamination from a shop where pesticides were stored for 15 years at the base, which closed in 1993, the military said. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported the contamination has also moved to four acres of private land next to the base.

The project would involve cleaning up cancer-causing pesticides and solvents including trichloroethylene and vinyl chloride.

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An alternate proposal would clean the contamination in about half the time, but it would cost about $400,000 more.

Read more: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/07/ap_myrtlebeach_072308/

[Crazy Dave]

1. I've seen dozens of these stopped before completed

All the money gets used up and/or diverted right before or about two years after the project begins. Some senator or congressman's nephew starts a clean-up company, gets the contract, sub-contracts that contract for about 25% of what they got, never pays the sub-contractor, sub-contractor goes out of business and so does nephew clean-up inc.

[comtec]

2. at this point, literally what's 400k?

i mean that's a little over half again, and it;ll cut SIX YEARS of the time.... oh well. common sense has no place in government anymore it seems :( :cry: