[CPEO-MEF] LEAD, CLOSURE, RESERVES: "Environmental team performs lead dust sampling at excess Army Reserve Center, " KS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental team performs lead dust sampling at excess Army Reserve Center

by Shatara Riis 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District  
October 15, 2020

Indoor firing ranges may pose a setback in the disposal process of multiple U.S. Army Reserve properties nationwide. Some 50 Army Reserve properties are slated for lead dust sampling.

The Louisville District Environmental Branch team recently collected samples at the former Trembley-White Army Reserve Center in Kansas City, Kansas, which has been vacant since 2017 and was previously used for administrative and training purposes.

“These excess properties are no longer needed by the Army Reserve, so they need to be disposed of,” said Rhiannon Ryan, Environmental Branch environmental scientist. “We have an obligation under CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act) to let the new owner know the environmental condition of the property and possible contamination.”


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For the entire release, see
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/380993/environmental-team-performs-lead-dust-sampling-excess-army-reserve-center

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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