[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, VOCs: Former Kansas missile sites

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cold War missile site targeted

ANN WILLIAMSON
TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL (KS)
November 15, 2009

Though the weapons have long since been removed and the collective eyes 
of the world no longer concern themselves with the day-to-day 
operations, missile sites in Kansas from the Cold War continue to elicit 
careful attention from the Army Corps of Engineers.

This is because more than bygone flashes of history can be found at some 
of the sites.

A chemical agent called trichloroethylene was used as a degreasing agent 
to clean fuel lines to ensure missiles at the sites were operationally 
ready and able to fire on cue. Workers didn't think twice about dumping 
the chemical on-site. However, since that time it has been discovered 
the chemical can have dangerous health effects at high levels.

There are 21 former Atlas missile sites and five former Nike missile 
sites in Kansas that are part of the Formerly Utilized Defense Sites 
program sponsored by the Department of Defense to evaluate and remediate 
contamination at FUDS.

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For the entire article, see
http://cjonline.com/news/local/2009-11-14/cold_war_missile_site_targeted

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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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