[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Dublin Annex, Radford Ammo Plant (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Public voices concerns over Dublin cleanup
The Army is holding meetings about its plans to decontaminate ammunition 
sites.

By Jeff Sturgeon
Roanoke Times (VA)
October 28, 2010

A handful of people asked questions Tuesday at a public meeting on an 
environmental cleanup plan for one of two bases that make up the Radford 
Army Ammunition Plant, focusing on whether the plan goes far enough.

...

The Army is conducting a public comment period on a $2.4 million 
proposal to clean up chemical contamination that has been in place since 
the end of World War II at the New River unit, or Dublin annex, of the 
Radford Army Ammunition Plant.

As the safety flooring in the former explosives bagging area and igniter 
assembly area degraded, it released lead, copper and asbestos into 
adjacent soil. Meanwhile, chemical residues remain in a 600-foot ravine 
once used to dump building debris and in a pit once used to burn excess 
or noncompliant explosives.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/264524

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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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