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March 28, 2019 | By: AP
Federal regulators say flooding in the Midwest temporarily
cut off a Superfund site in Nebraska that stores radioactive waste and
explosives. It inundated another one storing toxic chemical waste in Missouri,
and limited access to others.
The Environmental Protection Agency reported yesterday that there were no
releases of hazardous contaminants at any of eight toxic waste sites in flooded
parts of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.
The EPA identified the Nebraska Ordnance Plant in Mead, Nebraska, and the
Conservation Chemical Corporation site in Kansas City, Missouri, as heavily
flooded Superfund sites that required the agency to take immediate action to
prevent the spread of contaminated groundwater.
Two Iowa sites had some minor flooding but did not require the agency to
immediately do anything. It plans to reassess once the floodwaters recede.
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