Posted on 03/22/2007 10:48:27 PM PDT by wm25burke
Wait until these idiots discover what all chemicals are in that soil.
Then the city will get sued, bad.
It might be like Love Canal, where the local government practices all the irresponsibilty and deflects away all the blame.
I'm not sure I'd like a McMansion with that ginormous hangar in the backyard.
It was on the base exchange there that I bought our wedding rings.
What is 'rubbil'? :-)
IIRC, the local government was so anxious to get ahold of the property that they said that they'd handle the cleanup and liability....
>>they'd handle the cleanup and liability....
Glad I don't live in Tustin or pay property taxes there.
Looks like there's a bit of confusion regarding if it's a superfund site or not:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tustin+MCAS+superfund
MCAS is a blimp facility. We don't use blimps in the military anymore. I think they used Tustin for helicopters, too.
Nearby El Toro MCAS had jets, until closed recently.
They can expect to find solvents in the soils. I expect they will mitigate, by replacing and/or somehow treating the soil.
Near Sacremento there was a military site where space travel jet engines were tested. Rancho Cordoba, I seem to recall.
They washed down the engines with harmful solvents, which leached down and got into the aquifer, making the water unsuitable for use.
I worked for an engineering company which worked on mitigating that problem.
Orange County (Tustin and El Tore) has extensive ground water sources, and similar damage is at least a potential. No doubt, these two sites have been studied and tested extensively.
The risks should be well known.
Since WWII until present, Orange County has grown from under 200,000 to over 3,000,000. Not the best place anymore, for military bases.
Will they keep the blimp hangars?
When I was a kid we used to go on field trips to the blimp hangars: Bayview Elementary, Kaiser Junior High and Newport Harbor High, we all went to the blimp hangars and learned about them...
Ed
Thanks for the photos. For many years, I drove by the hangars on my way to work when I-5 got backed up. I wondered what they were doing with the base and the hangars. Can't say I like the new look, but considering the area, it's to be expected.
In the mid-1960s, Tustin was a nesting place for Marine UH-34s. And a laid back duty station where brass was mostly non-existent other than in your M-14 or M-60.
Pix of UH-34s at work -
http://www.aviationartbydubose.com/uh34.html
Unless there's a half-pipe inside.
Reminds me of when the military abandoned its Philippines bases--the locals teared through there, digging up the wiring and cutting down the trees.
Yeah! and El Toro was a good base too. The people that bought into the area knew that it was there and still bought in the flight path. Then they started pissing and moaning about the noise and out it went.
Last I heard they were keeping one of the blimp hangars, since they're historical. I hope that's still the plan.
Took them long enough, that property's been falling into ruin since we left, nearly ten years ago.
You may be referring to the old Aerojet site, near Rancho Cordova in Sacramento. That clean-up went on for quite a while. (I admire the rugged individualism of your spelling.) That picture looked like a blimp hangar; I grew up near Akron, where the Goodyear blimp lived, and as a child, went on school tours of the blimp hangar. Rumor was, it was so tall, it would rain inside when the condensation got too high.
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