More Tests for Pollution Sought at El Toro Site
The county will ask the Department of the Navy to examine 56 more areas of potential contamination at the former El Toro Marine Base and test the soil at several of the sites. Among the spots added by county environmental consultants to the 929 existing “locations of concern” are the base’s four runways, which aren’t on the Navy’s list of sites for further examination and cleanup. Two of the runways stretch 10,000 feet; the others are 8,000 feet long.
“We haven’t seen any evidence that the Navy has done a systematic look around the runways,” Mark Schultheis, the El Toro project manager for environmental consultant Geosyntech Inc., told county supervisors Tuesday.
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