Hill AFB team wins award

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), May 7, 2008

Hill Air Force Base's Environmental Quality Team, part of the 75th Civil Engineer Group Environmental Division, recently was named the best of its kind in the Department of Defense.

A panel of judges from the public and private sectors considered entries from the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines for the annual Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards competition.

Hill's team was recognized for things like reducing hazardous waste costs, establishing a new recycling program for scrap metals, demilitarizing more than one million pounds of stockpiled missile motor propellant and making "drastic facility and operational improvements to reduce by 95 percent the amount of storm water going into the industrial waste water treatment plant."

"Utah is clean because of Hill Air Force Base's outstanding work to set and achieve worthy environmental goals," said Rick Sprott, director of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. "Their commitment to protecting human health and the environment is impressive and serves as a model for others to follow."