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The Environmental Protection Agency's automated pumping and filtering building along Loring Road used to filter and treat groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent commonly used to clean and degrease aircraft in 1950s and 1960s. The EPA built the facility in 2020 as part of a long-term effort to clean up years of pollution left behind by the U.S. Air Force when Larson Air Force Base was closed in 1966, and expects to do the remediation work for the next several decades.

The Environmental Protection Agency's automated pumping and filtering building along Loring Road used to filter and treat groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent commonly used to clean and degrease aircraft in 1950s and 1960s. The EPA built the facility in 2020 as part of a long-term effort to clean up years of pollution left behind by the U.S. Air Force when Larson Air Force Base was closed in 1966, and expects to do the remediation work for the nex…

February 1, 2021

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EPA begins tong-term cleanup at former base
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EPA begins tong-term cleanup at former base

Five pounds. That’s how much trichloroethylene (TCE) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has likely removed during the last year from a contaminated plume of groundwater underneath what used to be Larson Air Force Base, according to EPA Remedial Project Manager Brad Martin.