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Resident warns council that Hill Air Force Base contamination has lingered for decades
Summary
A longtime South Weber resident told the council the Hill Air Force Base site has been on the national priority list for nearly 40 years and criticized what he called 'monitored natural attenuation' as inadequate; he warned the city may be allowing subdivisions on polluted land.
Brent Paul, who said he has lived in South Weber for almost 80 years, used the public-comment period to warn city leaders about lingering pollution he attributed to Hill Air Force Base and to criticize slow cleanup efforts. "We've been on the national priority list for almost 40 years now," Paul said, adding that the cleanup plan initially expected work to be done by the 2010s but that remediation now appears pushed into the 2040s.
Paul urged the council to hold parties accountable and questioned allowing subdivisions before cleanup. He said the current approach amounts to "monitored natural attenuation," a strategy he described as essentially watching contamination remain in place. The council did not take action on the claim during the meeting; the comment was recorded as public testimony for the record.
