[CPEO-MEF] "Nearly all off-site RDX contamination gone" from Cornhusker Ammo Plant (NE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nearly all off-site RDX contamination gone

By Tracy Overstreet

Grand Island Independent
September 21, 2013

Only one small area of RDX contamination remains in Grand Island off  
the former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant site - and it registers  
just barely above the safe drinking water standard.

The safe drinking water standard is 2 parts per billion of RDX, an  
explosives residue. The single contaminated well has a reading of 2.1  
parts per billion, said Corey Anderson of URS, an Omaha firm  
contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete the  
environmental cleanup of the former ammunition production plant.

The Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant measured 20 square miles during  
its heyday of bomb production during World War II. It was reactivated  
during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The plant land, bordered  
by Capital Avenue and Husker Highway on the north and south, 60th  
Road on the east and Schauppsville Road on the west, was declared  
surplus and began to be sold off on public auction in the 1990s.

But before land can be sold, it must be environmentally cleaned. Most  
of the land needed little to no remediation. However, land around two  
of the plantâs five load lines has needed more work, as has  
groundwater that became contaminated under the plant and then  
migrated northeast into Grand Island city limits.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/nearly-all-off-site-rdx- 
contamination-gone/article_6df96204-2320-11e3-84d5-001a4bcf887a.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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