[CPEO-MEF] Nebraska Ordnance Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NU begins cleanup at former ordnance plant near Mead

Associated Press
Beatrice Daily Sun (NE)
September 16, 2007

LINCOLN, Neb. - The University of Nebraska has begun an eight- to 
12-week project to clean up hazardous waste buried at the former 
Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead.

Trucks and backhoes are being used to remove chemical, biological and 
radioactive waste from around four trenches near the bomb-loading lines 
at the old munitions plant, which operated during World War II and the 
Korean War.

The material will be sealed in drums and other containers and sent 
elsewhere for proper disposal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
said.

The site is now the Agricultural Research and Development Center for the 
university, which bought the land in 1964. The university used some of 
the property in the 1970s and '80s as a disposal site for hazardous 
wastes including radioactive medical waste, solvents, pesticides and 
radioactive animal carcasses.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2007/09/14/ap-state-ne/d8rmparo0.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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