(GRAND ISLAND INDEPENDENT) The Grand Island Independent reports, "The last cleanup effort at the former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant west of Grand Island started on Monday. The $5.5 million, three-year project is to rid the plant of gravel mines produced and buried at the plant during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. 'They don't create a big boom but enough of a boom and enough mystery as to where they are, you have to proceed cautiously,' said Terri Thomas, project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers. That caution will include a 6,000-foot exclusion zone around remote-controlled equipment as it digs for the buried munitions in the most dangerous areas -- called the red grid. The mines are buried in the former plant's 33-acre waste area, which lies south of Capital Avenue and east of Schauppsville Road, Thomas said. . . . The cleanup efforts this year should have little impact on the construction of water detention cells by the Central Platte Natural Resources District. After the NRD expressed concerns about the water detention cell project being put on hold during the mine abatement, Thomas said, a coordinated work schedule was negotiated."
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