[CPEO-MEF] Iowa ammo plant demolition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Demolition at IAAP set for spring 

Slow process will include burning some structures and will cost $13
million. 

 By MATTHEW LeBLANC
The HawkEye (IA)
November 17, 2004 

 Crews will begin work early next year to demolish 249 buildings at the Iowa
 Army Ammunition Plant contaminated by decades of weapons manufacturing. 

 The demolition, which will include burning many of the buildings to the
ground in
 a process called thermal decontamination, will begin in the spring. The
burning is
 expected to take place some time later, according to plant officials
and a
 contractor that will oversee the work. 

 "This spring, we may start the demolition," said Rick Arnseth of Tetra
Tech, a
 Pasadena, Calif.?based firm that will oversee part of the cleanup of
IAAP grounds.
 "The burn may happen much later." 

 As part of a decade?old effort to clean up plant grounds where workers built,
 test?fired and disassembled components of nuclear weapons, in addition to
 assembling conventional weapons, crews plan to burn buildings in seven areas
 where the majority of the contamination exists. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln10_1117.html

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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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