[CPEO-MEF] Mead Ordnance Plant (NE) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

RAB tour shows clean up work continues at Ordnance Plant


By Joe Evans
Ashland Gazette (NE)
July 5, 2007

	 	
MEAD - Cleanup work continues to roll on at the former Nebraska Ordnance 
Plant near Mead.

During a tour of the site, led by United States Army Corps of Engineers, 
updates were given about the status of water contamination cleanup efforts.

The Corps is responsible for containment and clean up of the former 
munitions manufacturing plant site south of Mead. Chemicals such as RDX 
(an explosive) and TCE that were used during operations at the ordnance 
plant have caused contamination in groundwater, soil and surface water.

The tour made multiple stops within the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant 
site south of Mead.

The first stop was by extraction well 11, which is being cleaned and 
prepared to go back online.

"The well produces fine, but sitting for years has created some build up 
in it," said Dave Dander, Environmental Chemical Corporation hydrologist.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bellevueleader.com/site/tab2.cfm?newsid=18549593&BRD=2712&PAG=461&dept_id=556991&rfi=6

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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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