[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former Des Moines Ordnance Plant (IA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Weather delays cleanup of Prairie Trail park site

By DAVE DOLMAGE
Des Moines Register (IA)
November 10, 2009

Crews hope to complete work by Thanksgiving

Wet, rainy weather has slowed the cleanup process at the 38-acre former 
landfill and sewage lagoon in Ankeny's Prairie Trail development. Crews 
are optimistic they'll be able to finish the project by Thanksgiving.

Brian Broderick, project manager at MWH Americas, which is doing the 
work, said crews have made good progress and with enough dry days they 
should finish on time.

"We're just getting over the hump now, we've been fighting the weather 
for six weeks," Broderick said during a recent tour of the site by the 
Ankeny City Council and park board.

The site will become Chautauqua Park, part of the 1,031-acre project on 
part of the former Des Moines Ordnance Plant that later was an Iowa 
State University research farm. The lagoon and landfill were used first 
by the Army as part of its munitions plant there during World War II, 
and later by John Deere and the city of Ankeny.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091110/NEWS/911100308/1001/NEWS

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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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