[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Atlas missile site, Arlington, NE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup in works for old missile site

BY JOHN FERAK
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE)
August 17, 2008

ARLINGTON, Neb. — In the past 40 years, the Atlas missile site near this 
small farm town along U.S. Highway 30 has faded from memory and become a 
footnote to history.

By the mid-1960s, the U.S. military had developed more powerful 
strategic weapons, rendering Atlas missile sites obsolete. Today, the 
land near Arlington serves as a place for herds of cattle to graze. Over 
the next decade, the federal government plans a multimillion-dollar 
cleanup of toxins buried there during the Cold War.

This summer, a yellow sign staked in the private property advises people 
that the former military installation is subject to a government permit 
review by the Washington County Planning Commission, but the sign 
doesn't explain why.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10408219
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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