[CPEO-MEF] Iowa Army Ammunition Plant cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Iowa Army Ammunition Plant cleanup continues

Associated Press
Sioux City Journal (IA)
October 1, 2007

MIDDLETOWN, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant is scrubbing its 
image clean.

The plant will this year win its eighth straight Des Moines County 
recycling award. That's a far cry from the early decades, when 
explosives, solvents and petroleum byproducts swirled into a sour mash 
that flowed down streams and soaked into soil.

"This is not our grandfathers' or even our fathers' Army anymore," said 
Lt. Col. Benjamin Nutt, the facility commander.

Nutt remembers a time early in his career when it was common to see 
tanker trucks at military posts spreading used motor oil over combat 
training grounds to quell the dust.

Looking still further back to the start of World War II, when production 
began on the 19,000 acres here under government control, the lone 
priority was to get munitions to troops "fighting for America's 
continued existence," the commander said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/10/01/news/iowa/2123ee2730883da386257367000ebaaa.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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