[CPEO-MEF] Cornhusker Ammo Plant (NE) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army working to accelerate CAAP cleanup

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
January 29, 2008

The Army has been injecting soybean oil and a molasses-based mixture 
into groundwater to speed up the removal of explosives residue at the 
former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant west of Grand Island.

"It's intended to accelerate cleanup by at least 10 years," said Al Kam 
of Omaha, the Army Corps of Engineers' project manager.

That's key because the Army is spending about $1 million a year on the 
monitoring of contaminant levels and on operating a pump-and-treat 
groundwater facility on the former plant site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/01292008/new_caapclean29.shtml

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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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