[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, COMMUNITIES: RAB formed at former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (KS)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Ammunition Board to help spread information about clean-up 

by Kevin Barry
Fox 4 News (Kansas City)
July 17, 2024

DE SOTO, Kan. — A Restoration Advisory Board is being created to help discuss and share information about the 12-year clean-up process at the old Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto, Kansas.

It’s one of the latest developments in the long process to clean up that site after the U.S. Army started creating power for rocket propellant for World War II in 1943. It was reactivated for the Vietnam War in the late 1960s before being used in the First Gulf War in the early 1990s before being decommissioned in 1998.

The Army identified 97 sites of varying sizes where it would need to clean up contamination in the ground on the more than 9,000 acres that make up the plant.

“We’re basically identifying each issue whether it’s a solid waste management issue or area of concern, plot it on the map, and we go after the remediation that way,” said U.S. Army Base Realignment and Closure Sunflower Ammunition Plant Program Manager Ian Thomas.

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For the entire story, see
https://fox4kc.com/news/army-ammunition-board-to-help-spread-information-about-clean-up/

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Lenny Siegel
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