[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES, MUNITIONS: Tour of Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Restoration exploration
RAB surveys cleanup work during tour at IAAP.

By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES
The Hawkere (IA)
May 18, 2012

MIDDLETOWN - A memorial honoring the dead, and some still-fresh  
impressions from former workers, at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant  
were the only obvious reminders of the horrors that occurred and  
toxins that remain at the 19,000-acre site.

Otherwise, the sun and 80-degree temperature Thursday afternoon made  
it a fine day for folks to fish on the property's Lake Mathes and for  
the members of the plant's public restoration advisory board to tour  
the grounds.

"We've been working on this (cleanup effort) since 1990. It's now in  
its 22nd year. We've probably got another decade," said Restoration  
Advisory Board co-chairman Rodger Allison, adding even after the work  
is done, the public and the Army will continue to monitor to ensure  
the contamination is contained.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/iaap-051812

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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