[CPEO-MEF] RDX and Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

IAAP cleaning up area

By KILEY MILLER
Burlington Hawk Eye (IA)
September 21, 2007

Like doctors attacking cancer with chemotherapy, technicians from an 
environmental firm spent the first half of this month placing ports in 
the ground along U.S. 61 south of Burlington so they could go after a 
contamination plume from the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant with a special 
kind of medicine.

Under the eyes of countless passing motorists, Tetra Tech, a Tennessee 
company handling much of the pollution cleanup at the ammunition plant, 
finished drilling 11 wells along the highway near Brush Creek earlier 
this week.

A sugary solution known as sodium acetate will be pumped down the wells 
to feed a battalion of natural microbes living in the soil. As these 
tiny, brainless, spineless soldiers -- Rodger Allison has called them 
"magic bugs" -- gorge on their own version of children's breakfast 
cereal, they also will devour a batch of the explosive compound RDX that 
long ago leeched off the 19,000-acre plant in Middletown.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/iaap_cleanup_092107

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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