20 PentiumPro 200MHz • 2GB Hard Drive • 1MB PCI Video Card w/ MPEG • 15" SVGA .28NI Monitor • Intel 200MHz Pro Processor • 104 Enhanced Keyboard • Windows NT • Serial Mouse • 1.44 Floppy Drive •32MB RAM • ATX Mid Tower • 60 Watt Speakers :~~~~&i?s~,~;r· 0,2399 Pentium 166MHz 16/1.3G B C D • 166MHz Pentium CPU/Motherboard • 1MB PCI Video Card • 3.5" 1.44MB FDD • 1.3GB IDE Hard Drive • 16MB RAM • Serial Mouse • Wmdows 95 OS • Jumb~ ' finj Tower • 14" Monitor NI SVGA $ • 104E 1 nhan 3 ce-d K geyboa grd MultiMedia Bundle $189 6xCDROM ~,1~ound Card ViewSonic V20G· • 1600xl260 PC/ 1280x1024 Mac • .28 dpi Non Interlaced • Digital Controls • Green PC Energy Saving $1499 THE ROCKETEER September 5, 1996 ·FEDCOM AName You Can Trust. 1For Macintosh or IBM. Powerbook190cs • 8MB RAM • Dual Scan Color Screen • 500MB Hard Disk • 1.44MB Super Drive • PCMCIA Ports 2 Only! $1569 PowerMac 8500 0/0 CD • 604 Power PC Processor • 4xcD ROM • SVideo In and Out • 1.44MB Super Drive • Apple Warranty 1.2GB SCSI Quantum Hard Drive $279 MonitorIt Keyboard ·~-'" $2499 p..pvtaserWriter 411fiD 12/640 • 600dpi • 12 Pages Per Minute • 64 TrueType Fonts • Adobe Postscript Level 11/5 $1695 ...,._ VISA/Master Card/Discover Prices and avallabtfiiV are subJect to change Without notice. I ill I lictu how Stop by today and allow Brock, Dorri and Dana to assist you with your computing nee.~s! ... NAWCWPNSNie ..________...,.in Tomahawk THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1996 NAVAL AIR WARFARECENTER WEAPONS DIVISION CHINA lAKE VoL. 52, No. 18 Closure of ISS brings China Lake into compliance By Pe2n Shoaf EnvironmeniOil'ublic Involvement fter more than five years of planning, coordinat- mg and implementing new ways of doing busi- ess, discharge into the Michelson Lab Industrial Sewer System (ISS) has ceased, bringing NAWS China Lake into compliance with a cease and desist order issued in September 1991 by the California Water Quality Control Board. The ISS served two principal facilities - the Michelson Laboratory Complex and the Public Works Compound. Within these two areas wastewater from chemistry and engineering laboratories, photo-process- ing facilities, plating operations, solid state device oper- ations, vehicle maintenance and washing shops, and machine and battery shops flowed down two miles of ISS pipeline before going through a separator to remove oil and grease. It was then discharged into two evapora- tion ponds, known as the Michelson Lab Ponds, equipped with double synthetic liners. Wastes included acids, alkalis, heavy metals, cyanide, spent solvents, pho- tographic chemicals, cooling water, oil and grease and vehicle wash water. The ISS, which was constructed in 1979, was a sig- nificant improvement over the previous disposal system, which allowed industrial wastewater to be dumped into two unlined drainage ditches located in the vicinity ofthe Michelson Lab Ponds. With the old system, which ser- viced Michelson Lab from 1947 to 1979, an estimated maximum flow of 71,000 gallons per day of chemical wastewater was discharged onto unprotected soil. These ditches are now part of the Navy's Installation Restoration Program - a program designed to clean up past hazardous waste sites. Even though construction of the ISS in 1979 was a significant attempt to eliminate ongoing contamination of groundwater and soil, the enactment of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and its amendments in the early 1980s restricted the use of surface impound- ments as disposal units - putting the ISS, which includes the Michelson Lab ponds, out of compliance with environmental regulations. Before closing the ponds, however, discharge of all wastewater into the ISS had to be eliminated, either through accumulation, treatment or rerouting. Working with the Lahontan Region of the California Water Quality Control Board, Laurie Zellmer and Kent Westover, environmental engineers from the Environmental Project Office, developed a plan, and a schedule, to eliminate all discharge into the Michelson Lab ponds. The first step was to identify the major sources, Please see ISS, Page 8 TAKING SAMPLES-once o month the Environmental Pro;ects Office was required to toke samples of the water in Michelson Lob ponds. Hazardous constituents were then reported to the California Water Quality Control Boord. After extensive planning and coordinating efforts, all discharge into the ponds was stopped earlier this year, bringing Chino Lake into compliance with o cease and desist order issued by the CWQCB in 1991. Circle Skyhawk designates new NAWS boss PunlNG ON A NEW FACE-Sailors from VX-9's Corrosion Control Shop spent five doy_s working on the A-4 in the Chino Lake traffic circle on Inyokern Rood recently. They repainted the entire plane and added NAWS CO Copt. Stan Douglass' nome. Shown above ore AMH3 Mike Calabro and AMS3 james Donnelly. Not shown: AMH1{AW} Angelita Agvos, AT2 Steve Lopez and AMHAN Shone O'Dell. Photo by Kathi Ramont , OCR Text: 20 PentiumPro 200MHz • 2GB Hard Drive • 1MB PCI Video Card w/ MPEG • 15" SVGA .28NI Monitor • Intel 200MHz Pro Processor • 104 Enhanced Keyboard • Windows NT • Serial Mouse • 1.44 Floppy Drive •32MB RAM • ATX Mid Tower • 60 Watt Speakers :~~~~&i?s~,~;r· 0,2399 Pentium 166MHz 16/1.3G B C D • 166MHz Pentium CPU/Motherboard • 1MB PCI Video Card • 3.5" 1.44MB FDD • 1.3GB IDE Hard Drive • 16MB RAM • Serial Mouse • Wmdows 95 OS • Jumb~ ' finj Tower • 14" Monitor NI SVGA $ • 104E 1 nhan 3 ce-d K geyboa grd MultiMedia Bundle $189 6xCDROM ~,1~ound Card ViewSonic V20G· • 1600xl260 PC/ 1280x1024 Mac • .28 dpi Non Interlaced • Digital Controls • Green PC Energy Saving $1499 THE ROCKETEER September 5, 1996 ·FEDCOM AName You Can Trust. 1For Macintosh or IBM. Powerbook190cs • 8MB RAM • Dual Scan Color Screen • 500MB Hard Disk • 1.44MB Super Drive • PCMCIA Ports 2 Only! $1569 PowerMac 8500 0/0 CD • 604 Power PC Processor • 4xcD ROM • SVideo In and Out • 1.44MB Super Drive • Apple Warranty 1.2GB SCSI Quantum Hard Drive $279 MonitorIt Keyboard ·~-'" $2499 p..pvtaserWriter 411fiD 12/640 • 600dpi • 12 Pages Per Minute • 64 TrueType Fonts • Adobe Postscript Level 11/5 $1695 ...,._ VISA/Master Card/Discover Prices and avallabtfiiV are subJect to change Without notice. I ill I lictu how Stop by today and allow Brock, Dorri and Dana to assist you with your computing nee.~s! ... NAWCWPNSNie ..________...,.in Tomahawk THE ROCKETEER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1996 NAVAL AIR WARFARECENTER WEAPONS DIVISION CHINA lAKE VoL. 52, No. 18 Closure of ISS brings China Lake into compliance By Pe2n Shoaf EnvironmeniOil'ublic Involvement fter more than five years of planning, coordinat- mg and implementing new ways of doing busi- ess, discharge into the Michelson Lab Industrial Sewer System (ISS) has ceased, bringing NAWS China Lake into compliance with a cease and desist order issued in September 1991 by the California Water Quality Control Board. The ISS served two principal facilities - the Michelson Laboratory Complex and the Public Works Compound. Within these two areas wastewater from chemistry and engineering laboratories, photo-process- ing facilities, plating operations, solid state device oper- ations, vehicle maintenance and washing shops, and machine and battery shops flowed down two miles of ISS pipeline before going through a separator to remove oil and grease. It was then discharged into two evapora- tion ponds, known as the Michelson Lab Ponds, equipped with double synthetic liners. Wastes included acids, alkalis, heavy metals, cyanide, spent solvents, pho- tographic chemicals, cooling water, oil and grease and vehicle wash water. The ISS, which was constructed in 1979, was a sig- nificant improvement over the previous disposal system, which allowed industrial wastewater to be dumped into two unlined drainage ditches located in the vicinity ofthe Michelson Lab Ponds. With the old system, which ser- viced Michelson Lab from 1947 to 1979, an estimated maximum flow of 71,000 gallons per day of chemical wastewater was discharged onto unprotected soil. These ditches are now part of the Navy's Installation Restoration Program - a program designed to clean up past hazardous waste sites. Even though construction of the ISS in 1979 was a significant attempt to eliminate ongoing contamination of groundwater and soil, the enactment of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and its amendments in the early 1980s restricted the use of surface impound- ments as disposal units - putting the ISS, which includes the Michelson Lab ponds, out of compliance with environmental regulations. Before closing the ponds, however, discharge of all wastewater into the ISS had to be eliminated, either through accumulation, treatment or rerouting. Working with the Lahontan Region of the California Water Quality Control Board, Laurie Zellmer and Kent Westover, environmental engineers from the Environmental Project Office, developed a plan, and a schedule, to eliminate all discharge into the Michelson Lab ponds. The first step was to identify the major sources, Please see ISS, Page 8 TAKING SAMPLES-once o month the Environmental Pro;ects Office was required to toke samples of the water in Michelson Lob ponds. Hazardous constituents were then reported to the California Water Quality Control Boord. After extensive planning and coordinating efforts, all discharge into the ponds was stopped earlier this year, bringing Chino Lake into compliance with o cease and desist order issued by the CWQCB in 1991. Circle Skyhawk designates new NAWS boss PunlNG ON A NEW FACE-Sailors from VX-9's Corrosion Control Shop spent five doy_s working on the A-4 in the Chino Lake traffic circle on Inyokern Rood recently. They repainted the entire plane and added NAWS CO Copt. Stan Douglass' nome. Shown above ore AMH3 Mike Calabro and AMS3 james Donnelly. Not shown: AMH1{AW} Angelita Agvos, AT2 Steve Lopez and AMHAN Shone O'Dell. Photo by Kathi Ramont , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1996,Rktr9.5.1996.pdf,Rktr9.5.1996.pdf Page 1, Rktr9.5.1996.pdf Page 1