Client: Department of National Defense (DND) & Location CFB Lahr, Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany
Location: CFB Lahr, Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany
Canadian Forces Europe (CFE) operated two air bases and several military support facilities at six sites located within the state of Baden-Wurttenberg in southern Germany. Prior to troop withdrawal, DND retained an international consulting firm, with John McGlone as Principal in Charge, to conduct an assessment of environmental concerns at the bases that were intended to be "brownfields" on an interim basis at the time of withdrawal.
The scope of services included review of site setting, historic and current operations to identify concerns at CFB Lahr, CFB Baden and four other sites related to soil and groundwater impact from surface oil spills, gasoline distribution facilities, napalm burning area and buried tanks containing fuel oil and kerosene.
The work involved setting remedial action objectives for surface soil, subsurface soil and groundwater containing separate phases. Based on identification of general response actions, there was screening of applicable proven technologies, ranging from 'No Action1 through In-situ Physical Containment of Groundwater, Floating Organic Liquid Phase Controls and Physical Containment.
The estimated cost in 1992 for site remediation of the sites affected by free-floating petroleum product in groundwater below airfields was tens of millions of dollars. Sites ranged in size up to approximately 5000 acres.
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