[CPEO-MEF] Well tests find no explosives at Nebraska Ordnance Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Well Fields Test Negative For Explosives

Associated Press
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan
August 31, 2005

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Well fields in three cities have tested negative for
contaminants from explosives, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.

The results were recently received from wells serving Lincoln, Ashland
and Memphis.

The corps has been working since the early 1990s to clean up
contamination from the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead, which
is 14 miles north of Ashland. Water was tested this spring and summer
for an explosive known as RDX.

A 20-square-mile pool of contamination has been identified in the
aquifer upstream of the wells that serve the three cities. The site is
included on the federal government's Superfund list of the nation's
worst environmental problems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yankton.net/stories/083105/news_20050831009.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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