[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Officials say, speed up Sunflower ammo plant cleanup , " Johnson County, Kansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Next big development in JoCo? Officials say, speed up Sunflower ammo plant cleanup

BY LYNN HORSLEY
Kansas City Star
May 15, 2018 

Three years after the U.S. Army resumed environmental cleanup at the former Sunflower ammunition plant, members of the Kansas congressional delegation are pushing hard for faster progress at the massive redevelopment site in western Johnson County.

They know it has huge untapped potential: At 9,000 acres, with 15 square miles, it's about the size of Leawood. It's beautiful ground and is one of the metro area's largest single tracts of land, with space for parks, mixed-use development and even a University of Kansas research center. It’s envisioned as important for growth along the Kansas 10 corridor from Johnson County to Lawrence.

It's also polluted with decades of contaminants from facilities that produced gunpowder for World War II artillery shells and rocket propellants during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article210955679.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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