Wait until these idiots discover what all chemicals are in that soil.
Then the city will get sued, bad.
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'? :-)
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.
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.
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.
Tustin? Don't they mean El Toro?