[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Ravenna Arsenal (OH) cleanup

[lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)]

Cleanup by 2014 at several Ravenna Arsenal sites

Testing to be done in '09 at lower-priority areas. Deeper monitoring 
wells also planned this year

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
January 23, 2009

Additional sampling will take place this summer and fall at 16 
contaminated sites at the now-closed Ravenna Arsenal.

But the cleanup activities at the medium and low-priority sites at the 
former Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant won't be completed until 2013-2014, 
said spokesman Jed Thomas of Science Application International Corp., 
the contractor hired by the Army to do the work.

Those cleanups of chemically contaminated soils, surface water and 
sediments and analysis of groundwater at the complex in eastern Portage 
and western Trumbull counties will cost about $40 million.

Cleanup plans must be developed and approved and public hearings must be 
held before cleanup orders can be finalized, he said at a Wednesday 
meeting of the plant's Restoration Advisory Board.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/news/38204804.html

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