Mon Feb 13 2012
By Mike Sever
Record-Courier staff writer
Cleanup work at the former Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant is nearing its final phases, with the end scheduled by 2018.
Mark Patterson, U.S. Army co-chairman for the restoration advisory board, gave the board a status report on the efforts that have so far cost nearly $70 million.
Patterson said final cleanup and remedial actions are set for 2018, with final property transfer to the National Guard Board by 2019.
Long-term management of environmental sites on the facility would continue until 2048, Patterson said.
The ammunition plant, built for World War II, was active in one fashion or another until 1993.
Of the installation's 21,683 acres, 20,403 have been turned over to the Ohio National Guard for use as the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center. The remaining 1,280 acres are still under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army's Base Realignment and Closure Division until explosives and other contaminants are cleared.
Jed Thomas of Science Applications International Corp. reviewed remediation work completed on a drainage ditch at the Fuze and Booster Quarry Landfill/Ponds. More than 180 tons of nonhazardous sediment contaminated with manganese were stripped and shipped to a hazardous material landfill in Waynesburg.
David Crispo of Shaw Environmental outlined work to be done to locate and remove any potentially explosive hazardous material from seven sites.
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