[CPEO-MEF] Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant (TN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TNT manufacturing leads to plant site's pollution

By Mike Pare
Chatanooga Times Free Press (TN)
August 23, 2006

Decades of making TNT when environmental awareness was less keen than 
today created the pollution problem at the former Volunteer Army 
Ammunition Plant, officials say.

Scott Bolton, the Army Command representative on the site, said the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency did not open its doors until 1970, or 
nearly 30 years after TNT production had started on the property.

But, he said, the Army is responsible for remediation, and the federal 
government is paying the estimated $85 million cost to clean up the 
6,600-acre tract.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tfponline.com/absolutenm/templates/content.aspx?articleid=3953&zoneid=109

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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