[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: "Former Nebraska Ordnance Plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps offers updates at NOP cleanup site

By Lisa Brichacek
Wahoo Newspaper (NE)
May 31, 2017

MEAD – A new extraction well, pump house and solar panel have all gone into operation at the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant site south of Mead.

All are functioning as efficiently as hoped, according to officials offering information at a May 24 open house and site tour.

Last week’s open house was an annual event for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who have been tasked with cleanup efforts at the former NOP.

The 17,000-acre site was used between 1942 and the mid-1960s for munitions production and storage. Removing groundwater contamination created by those operations continues to be an ongoing project for the Corps.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wahoo-ashland-waverly.com/ashland/news/corps-offers-updates-at-nop-cleanup-site/article_634bac40-4621-11e7-a258-ffa1a8f1e4cb.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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