[CPEO-MEF] Camp Crowder (MO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army to cleanup TCE site

By Todd G. Higdon
Neosho Daily News (MO)
April 5, 2006

On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a soils 
cleanup by the U.S. Army at the site of the old rocket testing 
facilities at Camp Crowder.

The site, part of the U.S. Air Force Plant No. 65, was used to test-fire 
liquid propelled rocket engines during the 1950s and 1960s.

"The engine test area includes the North Engine Test Stand, South Engine 
Test Stand, Test Shop No. 1, Hazardous Waste Pit, Hazardous Waste Pit 
Surrounding Area and the liquid oxygen storage area," said Seventh 
District Congressman Roy Blunt in a prepared statement. "The engine test 
area at Camp Crowder is part of the Pools Prairie Superfund Site."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2006/04/04/news/01tce.txt

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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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