[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: Former Camp Ellis, IL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military cleanup of Camp Ellis to be discussed

By JOHN FROEHLING
Canton Daily Ledger (IL)
April 11, 2012

IPAVA - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will hold an  
informational, public meeting to discuss the upcoming Remedial  
Investigation/Feasibility Study for the former Camp Ellis Military  
Reserve site in Fulton County, according to a press release from  
Louisville, Ky.

...

The Louisville District (in Kentucky) manages the Former Camp Ellis  
FUDS project. USACE is working with private contractors to respond to  
the munitions contamination at the Former Camp Ellis and the risks  
associated with human exposure to munitions.

According to Daily Ledger files, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  
also held a public meeting in November 2004 at VIT Community School  
to discuss cleanup of World War II-era military ordnance at the Camp  
Ellis area. All of the property was then privately owned. About 75  
persons attended the meeting.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cantondailyledger.com/news/x1170669505/Military-cleanup-of- 
Camp-Ellis-to-be-discussed

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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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