[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, CONTRACTORS: Former Naval ordnance plant, Macon, GA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup funds possible for south Macon industrial properties

By S. Heather Duncan
Macon Telegraph
October 23, 2009

New test results for contamination on south Macon industrial properties 
show enough pollution to make them contenders for the Superfund list, 
according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

These properties include Armstrong World Industries and two sites where 
a naval ordnance factory and associated landfill were once located.

The factory was operated by the Navy during World War II and by defense 
contractors for decades afterward, before a seat-belt company called 
Allied Chemical Corp. gave part of the property its current name. The 
land is now owned by the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority, the 
Macon Water Authority and about 20 private businesses in the Allied 
Industrial Park.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/local/story/889802.html

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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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