[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Progress being made in IAAP cleanup
Slowly but surely, project will be complete.

By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES
Burlington Hawk Eye (IA)

With 19,000 acres to cover and countless chemicals and munitions to 
weave through, the cleanup process at the Middletown Iowa Army 
Ammunition Plant is slow going.

One consolidated program that started in 1987 is on a 40-year time 
frame; the others are too recent -- each starting around 2002 -- to even 
hazard a guess as to a completion date.

Still, amid all the groundwater tests and metals unearthed there is a 
silver lining.

"The advantage we do have now is we know what we're doing; we know the 
contaminants, and we know the levels," said Matthew Jefferson, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency environmental engineer and EPA 
representative on the IAAP Restoration Advisory Board.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/iaap-rab-072209

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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>
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