[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, VOCs: "Tests show [former Nebraska Ordnance Plant] groundwater treatment effective"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests show NOP groundwater treatment effective

By Sam Farmer 
Ashland Gazette (NE)
November 23, 2016 

MEAD – Tests measuring the spread of RDX and TCE in bedrock under the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant near Mead have been completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The tests results show the treatment of groundwater contamination has been effective.

That was the given by Edwin Long, the Corps’ senior project manager, at a Nov. 16 meeting.

The meeting was the second one held this year to update the public on ongoing efforts to clean up the RDX (an explosive) and TCE (a cleaning solvent) that had leached into the ground during ammunition production at the former NOP southeast of Mead.

In May, the Corps announced that monitoring wells at the south end of the contamination plumes showed high concentrations of the chemicals at a deeper level than previously penetrated.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wahoo-ashland-waverly.com/ashland/news/tests-show-nop-groundwater-treatment-effective/article_2308636a-b1c2-11e6-86ff-17bad87cf4aa.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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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