[CPEO-MEF] Ravenna (OH) ammo plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Additional pollution, explosives at arsenal
'Medium-priority' sites include test areas, quarry

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
December 3, 2005

A report on the extent of contamination at 14 additional areas at the
Ravenna Army Ammunition Facility is to be made final in early 2006.

MKM Engineers, a consultant for the Army, found explosives and
heavy-metal contamination at the 14 medium-priority sites on the
now-closed 21,419-acre complex east of Ravenna in Portage and Trumbull counties.

That includes a pistol range, an airplane crash-test area, a quarry, an
explosives storage area and five load lines where artillery and mortar
shells were produced in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam
War. Also, two ammunition-testing areas, an old landfill, a scrap yard
and an area with explosively charged ground-anchoring devices were
analyzed by the Texas company under a nearly $1.4 million contract with
the Army.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/community/13318809.htm

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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
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