[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: Nebraska Ordnance Plant

[Lenny Siegel]

After 25 years and millions of dollars, Superfund cleanup continues in Mead area

By CHRIS DUNKER 
Lincoln Journal Star (NE)
March 28, 2021

MEAD — The effort to determine the scope of AltEn Ethanol's effects on the surrounding area is not the first time residents of Saunders County have experienced environmental contamination on an industrial scale.

The Nebraska Ordnance Plant was named a national priority by the Environmental Protection Agency in the mid-1990s after an investigation found chemical solvents and explosives residue from the site had leached into groundwater.

While regulators and researchers explore how the pesticide-laden wet distiller's grains and wastewater stockpiled at AltEn continue to impact air quality as well as surface and groundwater, efforts to clean up environmental damage from the long-closed ordnance plant have already cost $140 million and could continue for decades.

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Lenny Siegel
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