Public health assessment for George Air Force Base, Victorville, San Bernardino County, California, Region 9: CERCLIS Number CA2570024453. Final report
George Air Force Base (AFB) is located in Victorville, California, in the Mojave Desert approximately 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Areas of concern at George AFB are divided into three operable units (OUs): Groundwater in the northeast portion of the base and adjacent off-site land is contaminated with volatile organic compounds, primarily TCE. A groundwater extraction and treatment system, designed to prevent migration of the contaminant plume towards the Mojave River, was completed in 1997. OU 1 also includes two other sites: SD-25, an industrial/storm drain, and WP-26, the former sewage treatment plant percolation ponds. Contaminated sediments and piping were removed from the storm drain at SD-25. A variety of leaks in this system resulted in an estimated of perhaps as much as a 750,000 to 800,000-gallon plume of jet propellant no. 4 (JP-4) encompassing an area of over 31 acres, as well as a dissolved-phase plume of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes extending over an area of 121 acres. Because of OU2 plumes is almost completely covered by asphalt, and studies conducted thus far have not demonstrated significant migration of the plume, George AFB, state and federal regulators continue to evaluate the feasibility of natural attenuation as a possible cleanup strategy. This OU consists of the remaining Installation Restoration Program sites, includes old landfills, other dump and burial sites, munitions sites, fire training areas, and spill areas. In February 1997, George AFB completed a remedial investigation/feasibility study for OU 3.
- Research Organization:
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Federal Facilities Assessment Branch, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 316475
- Report Number(s):
- PB-99-120982/XAB; TRN: 90321833
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Available in original stock only.; PBD: 1 Dec 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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