[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Nebraska Ordnance Plant groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Well retesting finds no contamination

By Joe Ruff
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE)
March 16, 2010

Testing of three groundwater monitoring wells indicated possible 
contamination from a former bomb factory near Mead, Neb., but it 
appeared to be a false positive and none of the wells produce drinking 
water, Metropolitan Utilities District officials said Monday.

The Nebraska Ordnance Plant was used during World War II and the Korean 
War, and it was an Atlas missile silo site during the Cold War.

Nearby groundwater was contaminated with volatile organic compounds and 
explosives, the most prevalent being trichloroethylene and RDX, and now 
the area is a Superfund cleanup site managed by the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100316/MONEY/703169959

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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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