West Virginia Ordnance Works

West Virginia Ordnance Works

West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW) was a United States Army ammunition manufacturing facility constructed and operated during World War II. It was located north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in Mason County encompassing convert|8323|acre|km2|2. The $45 million plant employed 3500 at its peak and operated from 1942 to 1945. [http://www.wvculture.org/History/military/wvordnance07.html] The site was disposed of following the war and land was utilized by creating a landfill, the McClintic Wildlife Management Area, the Mason County Airport and an industrial park among others.

uperfund

Around 1979, fishermen in the Wildlife Management Area reported red water seepage at the site and beginning in 1981, TNT, DNT and other residual contaminants from WWII operations were discovered. On September 8, 1983 the site was listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) making it eligible for cleanup as part of the Superfund program. The site was West Virginia's "top priority" cleanup site and was among the national top ten most polluted sites. Portions of the site have been cleaned up or determined uncontaminated and were later removed from the list, but cleanup has not been completed as of 2007.

According to the FY2006 Defense Environmental Restoration Program Annual Report To Congress, convert|2704|acre|km2|1 remained on the NPL and $71.4 million in cleanup funding had been appropriated. Estimated completion was FY2020 for an additional $27.9 million. [ [https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/News/OSD/DEP2006/App_M_Installation_Narrative_Summaries_osd-draft.pdf Defense Environmental Restoration Program Annual Report To Congress FY2006] , page 204.]

References

ee also

*Mothman (alleged sightings in the vicinity known as the "TNT area")
*McClintic Wildlife Management Area received around convert|2788|acre|km2|2, the industrial portion of the site
*Mason County Airport (FAA location identifier: 3I2)
*Mason County Fairgrounds

External links

* [http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/current/derp-fuds/wvow/ USACE - West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW) remediation]
* [http://epa.gov/reg3hwmd/super/sites/WVD980713036/index.htm EPA - West Virginia Ordnance (US Army) Superfund page]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/point-pleasant.htm Point Pleasant Depot]
* [http://www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/WMAAreas.shtm McClintic Wildlife Management Area]
*Geolinks-US-hoodscale|38.9256353|-82.0720866


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