[Military Environmental Forum] FORMER SITES, VOCs: Atlas D site, Loess Hills, IA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cold War missile site leaves toxic legacy in western Iowa groundwater

By Sheila Brummer
Iowa Public Radio
August 20, 2026


More than 100 people packed a public meeting in Missouri Valley Wednesday night. They were seeking answers about contamination from a former Cold War missile site in the Loess Hills of Harrison County.

The military deactivated the Atlas "D" site, associated with Offutt Air Force Base outside Omaha, in 1964 after four years of operation. But a toxic industrial degreaser called trichloroethylene (TCE) seeped into the groundwater.

More than six decades later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still studying how to address the pollutant. Officials told the crowd it could take another two years to develop a long-term cleanup plan. For some who live nearby, the wait has already been far too long.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/2026-08-20/cold-war-missile-site-western-iowa-missouri-valley-army-corps-water-contamination

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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