[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Army still targeting 2028 to finish cleanup at JoCo’s old Sunflower ammo plant site," KS

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army still targeting 2028 to finish cleanup at JoCo’s old Sunflower ammo plant site

By Lynne Hermansen
Johnson County Post (KS)
July 22, 2024


Officials with the U.S. Army remain hopeful they can complete environmental cleanup at the old Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant site in De Soto by 2028.

Whether that goal is met will be dependent, in large part, on whether federal funding continues to come through, Army officials said last Wednesday in a town hall in De Soto.

It was the first time in two years that Army representatives were in Johnson County to give a progress update on the years-long Sunflower cleanup project.

Ian Thomas, a program manager with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Base Realignment and Closure program, said about $40 million more in funding was needed to finish soil remediation and groundwater cleanup at 41 separate sites within the broader 9,000-acre Sunflower plant site.

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For the entire article, see
https://johnsoncountypost.com/2024/07/22/army-still-targeting-2028-to-finish-cleanup-at-jocos-old-sunflower-ammo-plant-site-238059/

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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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