[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former Des Moines Ordnance Plant (IA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup intensifies at Prairie Trail

By MELANIE LAGESCHULTE
Des Moines Register (IA)
March 17, 2009

Monitoring wells have been dug, and trees and other debris will soon be 
cleared at the site.

Additional tests on soil and water are under way and trees and other 
debris are being cleared at the former lagoon and landfill at the 
Prairie Trail development in Ankeny.

Environmental cleanup of the 38-acre lagoon and landfill site will be a 
major step forward in plans for the 1,031-acre development, located on 
part of the former Des Moines Ordnance Plant that later was an Iowa 
State University research farm.

The lagoon and landfill were used first by the Army as part of its 
munitions plant there during World War II and later by John Deere and 
the city of Ankeny.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090317/NEWS/903170348/-1/NEWS04&community=Ankeny

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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