[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, MUNITIONS: Iowa Army Ammunition Plant "big picture"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The big picture on IAAP cleanup

RAB discusses projects that are under way.


By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES
Hawkeye (IA)
April 12, 2012

OU. MMRP. CERCLA. DERP.

It's not gibberish. They're just a few of the acronyms associated  
with the environmental cleanup at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant that  
were contaminated from work at the Middletown facility.

The Restoration Advisory Board that was established to keep track of  
the governmentese and work being done at the plant talked about the  
big picture of the cleanup efforts during its quarterly public  
meeting Tuesday.

"It's pretty obvious to me that we're making progress on the off-site  
plume ... but we've got a ways to go," said Rick Arnseth of Tetra  
Tech, who offered an update on the RDX contamination in groundwater  
outside the plant's boundaries.

...

Alex Smith of Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Group, updated the  
board on the military munitions response program - the acronym is MMRP.

The program identified eight sites, including the central test area,  
the west burn pads and a possible demolition site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/rab-041912

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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
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