[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Cornhusker Ammo Plant (NE)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CAAP cleanup reducing groundwater contamination

By Tracy Overstreet
The Grand Island Independent (NE)
July 17, 2008

GRAND ISLAND -

The amount of explosives residue in the groundwater at the former 
Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant (CAAP) is down more than 40 percent 
from a year ago.

Molasses, soybean oil and whey are taking their toll on the residue at 
the defunct plant west of Grand Island.

The trio has been injected into groundwater with hot pockets of RDX and 
TNT contamination -- leftovers from the bomb-making years of the 1940s, 
1950s and 1960s at CAAP. The groundwater was under former Load Lines 4 
and 5 and the pistol range.

"So far, the RDX and TNT have been adhering to those," said Mary 
Wellensiek, contracting officer for CAAP.  "We were hoping for a 
25-percent decrease and it's showing a lot more than 25 percent."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/news/x1768849112/CAAP-cleanup-reducing-groundwater-contamination

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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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