[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, FORMER SITES: Offutt Air Force Base Atlas “D” Missile Site 3 (IA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Area residents receive update on old missile site contamination

By Tonia Copeland
Missouri Valley Times News (IA)
July 13, 2019

Nearly 60 interested citizens attended a June 4 annual informational meeting to discuss potential building sites at the former Offutt Air Force Base Atlas “D” Missile Site 3.

Those in attendance included representatives from Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Harrison County.

The site has shown areas of contamination in soil and groundwater, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking steps to mitigate that contamination.

Following the closure or sale of a former Department of Defense site, teams search for four types of contaminants – volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, petroleum byproducts, and polychlorinated biphenyls.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.enterprisepub.com/movalley/news/area-residents-receive-update-on-old-missile-site-contamination/article_154b5f4a-a4ed-11e9-828a-d3072a206cd7.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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