2010 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Nebraska Ordnance Plant groundwater
 
Well retesting finds no contamination

By Joe Ruff
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE)
March 16, 2010

Testing of three groundwater monitoring wells indicated possible contamination from a former bomb factory near Mead, Neb., but it appeared to be a false positive and none of the wells produce drinking water, Metropolitan Utilities District officials said Monday.

The Nebraska Ordnance Plant was used during World War II and the Korean War, and it was an Atlas missile silo site during the Cold War.

Nearby groundwater was contaminated with volatile organic compounds and explosives, the most prevalent being trichloroethylene and RDX, and now the area is a Superfund cleanup site managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100316/MONEY/703169959

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Lenny Siegel
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