Mesothelioma and Asbestos

The U.S. Forest Service has received $18.2 million in federal stimulus money to take care of facilities in 14 California counties. Part of this funding will be spent on the demolition of the 140-acre former Laguna Mountain Air Force Base site. Demolition work should be completed in a few years, allowing the Forest Service to grade the land as well as plant grass as well as trees, restoring the site to a common state.

It is unknown exactly how much the demolition work will cost. The Air Force base operated from the World War II era until 1981, housing up to 400 soldierlike personnel in the 1960s as they monitored the sky during the Chilly War.

Several of the base’s buildings were demolished back in 1994, but others were deemed too expensive to demolish due to the cost of hazardous bodily disposal, particularly the removal of asbestos from the steam pipe system. Asbestos is a known carcinogen that was widely used as insulation prior to the 1980s.

Despite the fact that the site has been closed to the community, it has been used illegally by paintballers, target shooters as well as transients. The site is rife with signs of vandalism as well as disrepair. Even so, the property has a lot of common beauty, including some of the largest pine trees in the Cleveland National Forest.

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