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  • July

    Iowa site works to award new remediation contract

    The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) continues its efforts to complete remediation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) near Middletown, Iowa. This site update includes cubic yards shipped to a license, out-of-state disposal facility as of June 30, 2023 as well as efforts to obtain a new remediation contract.

  • April

    North County site: Team working in last phase of former Ballfields

    Remediation work continues in last phase at former Ballfields.

  • March

    A view of Coldwater Creek and environs Monday, March 23, 2020. Coldwater Creek corridor (banks and sediment) and adjacent properties from New Halls Ferry in Florissant to Westminster in North St. Louis County make up a stretch of CWC being sampled in 2020.

    North County site: Team continues to investigate Coldwater Creek

    Sampling nears end of Coldwater Creek.

  • North County site: FUSRAP partners with MoDOT during I-270 North Project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) work together on the I-270 North Project in North St. Louis County. MoDOT work allows USACE’s environmental-remediation program, the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), to gain access to contaminated soils that had been inaccessible.
  • The St. Louis Downtown Site (SLDS) is located in an industrial area on the eastern edge of St. Louis, just 300 feet west of the Mississippi River. About 11 miles southeast of the St. Louis Lambert International Airport, SLDS is comprised of approximately 210 acres of land, which includes Mallinckrodt Inc. (formerly Mallinckrodt Chemical Works) and 38 surrounding vicinity properties (VPs).

    Downtown site sets sights on 2029

    Remedy Complete for the St. Louis Downtown Site (SLDS) is on the horizon.
  • Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) project manager Mike Kessler explains the soil-sorting process to the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management, Carmelo Melendez, and his associate, Gwen Hooten, at IAAAP in Middleton, Iowa, Sept. 9. Hooten is DOE-LM’s CERCLA/RCRA/FUSRAP team lead. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is the law that governs FUSRAP. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) governs solid-waste and hazardous-waste transportation, treatment, storage and disposal.

    Iowa site nears completion of active remediation

    The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is in the home stretch of active remediation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) site.

  • February

    The St. Louis District’s Dredge Potter assisted by the Kimmswick worked 24/7 through the 2022-23 dredging season on the Mississippi River. The Dredge Potter, built in 1932, is a dustpan dredge. The Kimmswick, commissioned in 2006, assists the dredge with pipeline movements. USACE photo by Janet Meredith, Public Affairs Specialist

    Record setting dredging season comes to an end

    The Dredge Potter crew finished up an unprecedented 2022-23 season on February 1, 2023, that required tremendous teamwork to maintain the congressionally mandated nine-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide navigation channel and overcome the challenges from the widespread drought, and prolonged extreme low water that affected the Mississippi River basin. Dredging operations moved nine million cubic yards of material, at 70 different locations along 300 miles of the St. Louis District. In total, seven dredging units -- dustpan, cutterhead and mechanical -- were working throughout the St. Louis District area of responsibility. Two other units, for a total of nine, supported Mississippi Valley Division efforts on the Mississippi River.