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Show ALCPA ? trap OfA IT COLLECpp u n 0 CDMUT rtfXCTN TMtOUOM lOGtSTlCS ft Remember Sunday is Mother's Day! Vy 7 Vol. 45 No. 18 Hill AFB, Utoh B May 10, 1991 00 ALCPA -- I 7I Hill AFB, UT 84056-599- Third Class 0 n Serlolj Order Department 7 : z f SalrlokeCity, Ur84112 ' f - wi ' - dliselnKQiirge ' r Mill Groundwater from base will be treated, released o by David W. Harris i i v - S Environmental Management Directorate , ; ? , "fx I i Hill AFB Environmental Management officials met with the North Davis County Sewer Board of Directors on Thursday at its monthly meeting to discuss the base's plans to increase the volume of wastewater disposed into the county's sewer system. County officials had expressed concern that Hill would be dumping untreated wastewater into the sewer system. . According to Hill's chief of environmental restoration, Capt. Ed Heyse, county officials may not have realized the additional waste stream, treated " fff - A " . vr by the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant, will not adversely impact the county's sewage treatment system. The additional wastewater will consist of groundwater pumped from recovery wells at one of the base's hazardous-wastsites known as Operable Unit 2. However, instead of dumping the water directly into the sewer, the water will first be thoroughly treated at the base's plant to remove nearly all the contaminants. "The additional waste load going into Hill's Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant is small only about e 1- U S. Air Force Photo by Gregg Wixom Geared up John J. Welch Jr., assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, inspects landing gear in Bldg. 225 during a visit to Hill AFB May 2. Commander tells of successes by Ron Fry AFLC Office of Public Affairs 66 AFB, Ohio (AFLCNS)-Wh- ile there was great logistics success in Operation There was an almost Desert Storm, changes in the U.S. transition to defense environment are creating transparent many challenges in the logistics arena, wartime operations during the Air Force's senior logistician told Desert ShieldStorm. a Senate subcommittee. Gen. Charles C. McDonald, Air Force Logistics Command commander, testified before the Senate Gen. Charles C. McDonald Armed Services Committee subcomAFLC commander mittee on Readiness, Sustainability and Support and said his command's support of Operations Desert Shield some 83,000 tons of cargo and 557,000 and Desert Storm was virtually tons of munitions to the Middle East. However, the logistics success did flawlgss. "There was an almost transparent not come without costs. General transition to wartime operations dur- . McDonald told the subcommittee he ing Desert ShieldStorm," the gener- expects AFLC's total cost for support al said in written testimony presented of Desert Shield and Desert Storm to to the subcommittee. He said that be about $1.1 billion. He said supthanks to strong logistics support, plemental funding approved by Conmission capable rates of many flying gress is welcomed, but its timely units were kept at more than 90 per- release is needed in order to effectively cent during the Gulf War. Also, he cover the costs of Desert Storm. The general also called for adequate said AFLC managed the shipment of WRIGHT-PATTERSO- N 99 -- funding for spare parts. He said the success of flying units that took part in Desert Storm was largely due to supplies of critical spares and other items known as war reserve materiel. He said the good supply was well-stocke- d due to strong funding in the mid-1980- s. But since 1987, funding for WRM has dropped significantly to this year when Congress deleted the entire $373 million request for WRM. He said that lack of funding will affect future operations. "Because of fiscal 1991 funding, we project a loss of several thousand sorties in fiscal 1993," General McDonald said. General McDonald said that with recent changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Air Force and the Department of Defense are drawing down from a defense strategy that once planned for a possible showdown with the Soviets to a strategy of dealconing with emergency, short-tertingencies such as the Gulf War. "Our challenge is to reduce the size and change the shape of our opera- m See Commander, Page 3, please. pre-treatme- nt and can easily be handled by the existing systems," Captain Heyse said. According to normal base procedures, all industrial wastewater generated at the base is first treated at the IWTP and then discharged into North Davis Sewer System. County regulations specify that groundwater cannot be dumped into the sewer system. However, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has allowed contaminated wastewater from other hazardous-wast- e sites to be discharged into the sewer systems, provided the sewage treatment plant is not adversely affected. According to Captain Heyse, the North Davis plant will not be adversely affected. Hill currently has a permit to dispose of a certain concentration of toxic organics into the sewer system. Captain Heyse said the limit of 1.92 milligrams per liter set by the permit will not be exceeded by the increased volume of wastewater. Water removed from the ground will e and then be initially treated treatfor to the IWTP further pumped ment. Once it leaves the base for the sewer system, the contaminant levels 5 percent more on-sit- See Discharge, Page 2, please. 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