Reusing contaminated lands in Nebraska
By NET News
KVNO Radio News (Omaha, NE)
December 30, 2013
Lincoln, NE - Inside an old military bunker east of Hastings, Neb.,
Ronnie Sanchez reads from a sign painted on the wall.
"In this one bunker, they had 143,000 pounds of missile, 500,000
pounds of smokeless powder, and another 500,000 pounds of
pyrotechnics. If you multiply that by all of them, you think about
how much stuff they were storing in all these bunkers out here,"
Sanchez said.
We're at the former site of the Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot,
where millions of pounds of explosives and bombs were assembled and
stored from World War II into the early 1960s. Row after row of the
concrete structures - many covered with sod - still cover the
landscape. But Sanchez isn't a military officer. He's the project
leader for the Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District, which
manages about 24,000 acres across south-central Nebraska for
migrating birds.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.kvnonews.com/2013/12/reusing-contaminated-lands-nebraska-2/
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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