[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Redstone Arsenal (AL) perchlorate and TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Construction Begins On Missile Production Facility


by Kari Hawkins
Army News Service|
December 21, 2011

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Earth is being moved to make way once again  
for missile production on Redstone Arsenal.

And while a recent visit to a site in the southeastern edge of the  
Arsenal revealed heavy machinery being used to move dirt in  
preparation for the construction of Raytheon's $75 million, 70,000  
square-foot Standard Missile production facility, it's the dirt work  
that happened prior to the corporation's midsummer ground breaking  
that will have the most lasting impact on the environment.

The site was home in years past to a government-owned missile  
manufacturing facility operated by Thiokol. Years after the facility  
was shut down, it was determined that areas within the site were  
contaminated with manufacturing pollutants. And with Raytheon eyeing  
the site for a new manufacturing enterprise, contamination cleanup  
became a top priority with the Garrison.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.military.com/news/article/army-news/construction-begins-on- 
missile-production-facility.html

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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
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