[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Off-site RDX plume remediated at Cornhusker Plant (NE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

 Off-site RDX contamination cleanup completed

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
December 10, 2014

Grand Island has hit a 33-year milestone.
Groundwater contaminated with unsafe levels of TNT and RDX is no  
longer beneath Grand Island city limits.

“Our cleanup has been successful, and things have been cleaning up  
slowly but steadily,” said Doug Simpleman, project manager for the  
Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha.

The plume of contaminated groundwater was discovered in 1981 beneath  
the former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant west of Grand Island.  
Subsequent testing revealed it had also migrated under properties in  
northwest Grand Island. The former plant was bordered by Capital  
Avenue on the north, Husker Highway on the south, 60th Road on the  
east and Schauppsville Road on the west.

“The plume ran from the northeast of the plant for about five miles,  
and it’s really kind of done now. It ends at the (T&E) Feedlot,”  
Simpleman said. “It’s pretty good news.”

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/off-site-rdx-contamination- 
cleanup-completed/article_78347f82-80f4-11e4-9dd3-cb4d4f8e1a33.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
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