MOFFETT FIELD NAS
The Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field site is located 35 miles south of San Francisco and approximately 1 mile south of San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County, California. The former Navy installation consists of approximately 1500 acres and is bounded by former evaporation salt ponds to the north, Stevens Creek to the west, U.S. Highway 101 (Bayshore Freeway) to the south, and the Lockheed Martin Aerospace facility to the east. NAS Moffett Field was commissioned in 1933 to support the "lighter than air" (LTA) program. Two years later the LTA program ended, but to support World War II, the LTA program was reactivated and a "heavier than air" program began to support fighter planes. The station became the largest naval air transport base on the west coast. The Navy participated in the Installation Restoration Program, a specially funded program established by the Department of Defense (DOD) to identify, investigate, and control the migration of hazardous contamination at military and other DOD facilities. To date, 30 hazardous waste sites have been identified at the NAS Moffett Field site. Ongoing work is being conducted at eight of these sites. The eight sites are: Site 1 - Runway Landfill (part of Operable Unit 1) Site 22 - Golf Course Landfill SIte 25 - Eastern Diked Marsh and Stormwater Retention Basin Site 26 - East-side Aquifer Treatment System Area (also referred to as the EATS Area) Site 27 - Northern Channel Site 28 - West-Side Aquifers Treatment System Area (also referred to as the WATS area) Site 29 - Hangar 1 Orion Park Area (Currently owned by the U.S. Army) Groundwater in the underlying aquifers beneath the site is not used for drinking water or other potable uses. Groundwater in the area is, however, a potential future source of drinking water and therefore groundwater cleanup standards have been established.
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