Ordnance Remediation and Public Involvement: Keeping the Public from Blowing Up
Abstract
In the Ordnance and Explosive Waste Remediation Program, a good public involvement program keeps people from "blowing up" -- literally and figuratively. First, it keeps the public informed about ordnance dangers. Second, it allows the public to get involved, keeping them from "blowing up" at the government and the ordnance contamination problem. Huntsville Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is the Corps' Center of Expertise for Ordnance and Explosive Waste Remediation. We work with Corps of Engineers districts across the nation at both active and formerly used Department of Defense sites. Dangerous unexploded ordnance exists on private property, sometime in great quantities. Former ordnance plants, depots, arsenals and training areas, long abandoned by the Defense Department, now house industrial parks, wildlife preserves and subdivisions. In fact, of over 7,000 formerly used Defense sites, about 1,300 have the potential for ordnance contamination.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA498798
Entities
People
- Ken Crawford
Organizations
- United States Army Corps of Engineers