U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal
| U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal EPA ID: AL7210020742 Location: Huntsville, Madison County, AL Congressional District: 05 NPL Status: Proposed: 06/23/93; Final 05/31/94 Project Manager Documents: ![]()
Site Background: The Environmental Management program at Marshall Space Flight Center consists of 74 sites organized into 9 operable units, including a facility-wide groundwater operable unit. The Army and NASA cleanup programs are separately funded and operated, with the Army and NASA coordinating on common programmatic needs such as data sharing, and technical issues including groundwater, unexploded ordnance, and chemical warfare materiel contamination characterization and cleanup. Cleanup Progress: Studies Underway The current focus of investigation by the Army and NASA is on groundwater contamination. Groundwater contaminated with solvents and perchlorate has migrated beyond the NPL facility boundaries underneath off-post residential communities located east of Redstone Arsenal. Groundwater is not used for drinking water (potable water) purposes. At the Marshall Space Flight Center, several groundwater treatability studies are underway or proposed. All 74 sites at Marshall Space Flight Center are actively being investigated. Of the 225 Army media sites, 145 are actively being investigated. In addition, CERCLA Site Assessment activities are on-going at Redstone; approximately one thousand (1,000) additional areas of potential concern have been identified and reviewed at Redstone through archival searches, aerial photograph reviews, and employee interviews. A similar Site Assessment initiative by Marshall Space Flight is targeted for completion in Fiscal Year 2008. Marshall Space Flight Center has three (3) Record of Decisions and Redstone Arsenal has seven (7) Records of Decisions (RODs). Five (99, 11, 49, 57, 47, 2/87) of those RODs address surface media sites with one addressing site wide groundwater land use controls. Numerous removal actions have also taken place at Redstone. |
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