[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant (NE) RDX CLEANUP

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RDX cleanup making progress

By Tracy Overstreet

Grand Island Independent (NE)
June 25, 2011

Groundwater contamination caused at the former Cornhusker Army  
Ammunition Plant west of Grand Island no longer exceeds health  
advisory levels off the plant property.

"We've effectively eliminated the plume off-plant," said Terri  
Thomas, the project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers. "It's  
great news."

Military officials first announced that groundwater contaminated with  
explosives residue from the bomb-making plant had migrated off plant  
grounds in 1982. Officials with the U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous  
Material Agency at that time held a news conference in Grand Island  
to say they believed groundwater contaminated with the explosives had  
traveled in an underground groundwater plume running north and east  
of the plant.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/articles/2011/06/25/news/local/ 
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Lenny Siegel
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