[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Black Hills Army Depot (SD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army considers options for SD depot site cleanup

By CARSON WALKER
Associated Press
November 7, 2013


SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Federal workers are moving ahead with a plan to remove any lingering contamination to a swath of South Dakota farmland  that once housed an Army depot where dangerous munitions were stored.

Although the government shutdown forced the cancellation of this month's public meeting about possible cleanup options for the former Black Hills Army Depot site, Army Corps official John Miller said Thursday the meeting would instead be held early next year.

>From 1942 to 1967, the former depot near Edgemont stored and eventually dismantled or destroyed bent, damaged or otherwise unusable weapons. Over the past two decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is charged with cleaning up formerly used defense sites, has unearthed and removed buried ordnance and cleaned up contaminated land at the site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Plan-in-works-to-clean-up-SD-chemical-weapon-sites-4964203.php
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Lenny Siegel
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