travis air force base

TRAVIS AFB

Established in 1943, the 6,368-acre Travis Air Force Base is home to the 60th Air Mobility Wing, the 349th Air Mobility Wing, the 621st Contingency Response Wing, and the David Grant Medical Center. Travis Air Force Base is participating in the Environmental Restoration Program (ERP), formally the Installation Restoration Program (IRP), a specially funded program established by the Department of Defense (DOD) in 1978 to identify, investigate, and control the migration of hazardous contaminants at military and other DOD facilities. Approximately 27,600 people live within one mile of the site, and 400 people obtain drinking water from wells within three miles of the base. Previously identified contaminated areas include three landfills, four fire training areas where combustible wastes were burned, a radioactive burial site, a solvent spill area that used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to clean metal parts, and a storm sewer system that may have received contaminants from multiple locations.

• Peoples Natural Gas Co. (Dubuque, IA)
• Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (saratoga Springs Plant) (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• Leonard Chemical Co., Inc. (Rock Hill, SC)
• North Market Street (Spokane, WA)
• Redwing Carriers, Inc. (saraland) (Saraland, AL)

• Himco Dump (Elkhart, IN)
• National Starch & Chemical Corp. (Salisbury, NC)
• Saegertown Industrial Area (Saegertown, PA)
• Waste Disposal, Inc. (Santa Fe Springs, CA)