[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, DISPOSAL: "Citizen group pushes for halt to open burning at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, " VA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Citizen group pushes for halt to open burning at Radford Army Ammunition Plant

By Charlie Paullin
NBC12/WWBT (Richmond, VA)
October 11, 2022

Alyssa Carpenter hadn’t reached the age of 30 when she had her thyroid removed.

A former student at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, she began getting sick after she graduated. Eventually, doctors found her thyroid was extremely diseased and suspected it could be cancerous.

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Carpenter thinks the problems can be traced back to one place: the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, a roughly 7,000-acre complex in Montgomery and Pulaski counties that manufactures propellants for munitions and rockets used by the U.S. Army.

Specifically, she believes her health problems are linked to contamination resulting from the RAAP’s open burning of hazardous wastes — a practice banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1980 but allowed at the Radford facility through an exception permitting open burning and detonation of waste explosives. She lived within a mile of the plant during her undergraduate studies.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.nbc12.com/2022/10/11/citizen-group-pushes-halt-open-burning-radford-army-ammunition-plant/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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