[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: RDX in water from Holston Army Ammunition Plant (TN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nonprofit files lawsuit notice for Kingsport plant

By TRAVIS LOLLER
Associated Press
September 15, 2014

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Clean Water Network says it is  
prepared to sue a Kingsport ammunition plant over its continued  
pollution of local drinking water.

BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc. operates the Holston Army  
Ammunition Plant for the U.S. Army. Wastewater from the plant is  
discharged into the Holston River, about 10 miles upstream of a  
drinking water intake for the First Utility District of Hawkins County.

According to a notice of intent to sue filed Monday, the state told  
BAE in 2007 that it had to reduce the amount of the explosive RDX  
that it was releasing into the river to no greater than 12.2 pounds  
per day, based on a monthly average.

That limit was designed to bring the level of RDX in local drinking  
water to 2 parts per billion or less. That's the U.S. Environmental  
Protection Agency health advisory limit for RDX, which the EPA says  
is a possible human carcinogen.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Nonprofit-files-lawsuit- 
notice-for-Kingsport-plant-5756765.php

See also
Holston Army Ammunition Plant enters agreement to address explosives  
in river
By Nate Morabito
WJHL TV-11 News  (Johnson City, TN)
September 9, 2014
http://www.wjhl.com/story/26489253/special-report-holston-army- 
ammunition-plant-enters-agreement-to-address-explosives-in-river


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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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