[CPEO-BIF] Wellman Dynamics, Creston, Iowa "headed to court over environmental cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Iowa military manufacturer headed to court over environmental cleanup

By Clark Kauffman
Iowa Capital Dispatch
December 7, 2023

A southern Iowa military supplier that has been accused of endangering U.S. troops and contaminating Union County groundwater is now locked in a legal battle over the cost of cleaning up the manufacturing site.

The site in question is the Wellman Dynamics manufacturing plant in Creston. For decades, Wellman Dynamics has done business as an aerospace supplier that manufactures large magnesium and aluminum castings for the defense industry.

Court records indicate that in 2018, while mired in bankruptcy, Wellman Dynamics was purchased by the newly formed entity WDC Acquisitions. As part of that purchase, WDC Acquisitions assumed the responsibility of cleaning up the site, which had been heavily contaminated in the mid-1960s by the site’s then-owner, Hills McCanna Co.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2023/12/07/crestons-wellman-dynamics-plant-at-center-of-contaminion-suit-union-county-groundwater-arkema/71818228007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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