[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Years-long cleanup of 9, 000-acre Johnson County ammo plant site nears finish line" (Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, KS)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Years-long cleanup of 9,000-acre Johnson County ammo plant site nears finish line 

By Taylor O’Connor 
Kansas City Star
April 27, 2026

The U.S. Army and Army Corps of Engineers is just hundreds of acres away — out of nearly 9,000 acres total — from the long-awaited finish line for its clean up efforts at the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in western Johnson County. The massive site near De Soto was once home to a factory that produced gunpowder for artillery shells in World War II and rocket propellants during the Vietnam War. 

The site also had storage facilities, powerhouses, landfills, burning grounds and waste treatment facilities. It shut down in the early 1990s but left behind a sludge of contaminants like lead, arsenic and nitroglycerin that called for major cleanup efforts.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/johnson-county/article315526634.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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