[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, RADIATION: Lake City Ammo Plant (MO) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lake City environmental cleanup almost complete
Company says no risk to human health

By Adrianne DeWeese
Blue Springs Examiner (MO)
July 08, 2009

Independence, MO —

A multimillion dollar environmental cleanup project in eastern 
Independence that’s been decades in the making was met with no public 
comments Tuesday night.

About a dozen local, state and federal government officials met at Lake 
City Army Ammunition Plant at Missouri 7 and 78 and listened to a 
proposed plan for the plant’s Area 10 sand pile cleanup. Overall, the 
cleanup efforts are complete, though about 765 tons of sand material 
still needs sorted for potential safety hazards.

...

Throughout five years, the cost for the cleanup totaled $14.7 million. 
The U.S. Army paid the bill for potentially harmful mistakes made in the 
1960s and 1970s, prior to government-mandated regulatory practices.
The removal actions have resulted in residual lead concentrations 
acceptable for industrial land use and residual depleted uranium 
concentrations acceptable for unrestricted land use, Wacker said. No 
current or future risks exist to human health or the environment within 
the industrial exposure, he said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.net/news/x488829667/Lake-City-environmental-cleanup-almost-complete

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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