[CPEO-MEF] GROUNDWATER: Former Nebraska Ordnance Plant annual containment report

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Site contamination continues in containment

By Kris Byars
Wahoo Newspaper (NE)
October 24, 2012

YUTAN - The annual containment report for the Former Nebraska  
Ordnance Plant superfund site shows that, for the most part,  
everything is going according to plan.

At an Oct. 17 quarterly meeting hosted by the United States Army  
Corps of Engineers, Corps representatives said that data gathered  
over the course of the last year shows that the plumes of groundwater  
pollution that flow outward from several location at the former plant  
site are being contained.

"The data and all the modeling we've done shows it's in containment,"  
said Project Geologist Brad Brink.
 While the plant was in operation toxic chemicals such as TCE, a  
toxic solvent used at the site, and RDX, and explosive that was used  
in Ordnance manufacture, seeped into the groundwater beneath the  
site, contaminating it.minating it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wahoo-ashland-waverly.com/article_881eff56-1e2e-11e2- 
b094-0019bb2963f4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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