[CPEO-MEF] Cornhusker Ammo Plant (NE) RDX

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

RDX levels are lessening

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent
June 2, 2006

The news is good and getting better on a multi-decade cleanup of Grand 
Island area groundwater contaminated with RDX.

"The plume is dissipating," said Mary Wellensiek, the Cornhusker Army 
Ammunition Plant (CAAP) representative.

The contamination originated at the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant 
west of Grand Island from both the production of and the washout of 
equipment used in manufacturing explosives. RDX was one of many 
explosives used at the plant in making artillery shells, gravel mines, 
bombs and rockets during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/060206/new_rdx02.shtml

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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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