Mr. Robert Wood

Robert Wood, Environmental Restoration Director, Edwards AFB
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Robert Wood, Director, Environmental Management

February Luncheon: "Environmental Management, Not Just Bugs & Bunnies" Special Guest Speaker: Mr. Robert Wood, Director, Environmental Management [See Flyer]

"It's designed to be a living laboratory; we're paying attention to the amount of care and maintenance required, how well the plants do, and whether we're simply growing salad for the bugs or bunnies to eat," said Environmental Management director Robert Wood.

The "technical impracticability" waiver is being sought from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and a similar waiver known as a containment zone is being sought from the state, said Bob Wood, director of environmental management for Edwards.

In addition to showing that it is not possible to meet cleanup standards with existing technology, the Air Force will have to show that the contamination does not pose a health threat, Wood said.

"A waiver can't be granted if there's a public health threat," Wood said.

The contamination on the south side of Leuhman Ridge at what is commonly referred to as the rocket lab is in groundwater that does not supply the base's drinking water wells, officials said.The rocket lab is about 12 miles from the base's main facilities and six miles from Boron, the nearest civilian community.

The approval of the waivers would be part of the site's "record of decision," a document in which the Air Force and regulators agree on the cleanup strategies for a particular site.

That document would be reviewed every five years to see if there were new technologies that could be applied to the site, Wood said.

Robert Wood - Chief, Environmental Management Division, Edwards AFB

"We've found it's useful," says Robert Wood, chief of environmental restoration at Edwards Air Force Base.Still, Mr. Wood adds, "it's much more expensive [than the less sophisticated 2D imaging] and it should be used judiciously."
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Edwards Air Force Base, Lancaster: Continuing seismic work aided engineers in finding hot spots where solvents used to clean rocket engines followed cracks in the bedrock, says Mr. Wood, the environmental restoration chief there.

"When this happens, it makes cleaning up the contamination next to impossible because we don't have an accurate picture of what we are dealing with," said Robert Wood, chief, Edwards AFB Installation Restoration Program.
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"We need to identify the optimum location for wells in these situations," Wood said.