[CPEO-IRF] Former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant (IL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant was closed outside the BRAC
process. It is actually listed twice on the "Superfund" National
Priorities List.  - LS]

Prairie beginning to take shape at Midewin 

By CHRIS YOUNG
Springfield State Journal-Register (IL)
May 21, 2005

Almost as soon as work began to convert the former site of the Joliet
Army Ammunition Plant in northern Illinois to the Midewin National
Tallgrass Prairie, grassland birds accepted the invitation to move back.

"I've actually been impressed here at Midewin," says Chris Whelan, a
grassland avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey. "As
we have made changes to the habitat, there has been almost instantaneous response."

And that's in spite of the fact that work to restore the 15,000-acre
site is progressing slowly, but deliberately. The Midewin Web site says
the Army is still cleaning up contamination left from decades of TNT
manufacturing and packaging. A portion of the site is open to the
public. (See www.fs.fed.us/mntp.)

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/outdoors/stories/56290.asp


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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