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Archive Search Report Findings: Camp Wolters (open access)

Archive Search Report Findings: Camp Wolters

Report describing munitions found during cleanup operations at Camp Wolters. This report also includes descriptions and maps of the area.
Date: September 2002
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Former Camp Wolters Historical Aerial Photographic Analysis, June 2002 (open access)

Former Camp Wolters Historical Aerial Photographic Analysis, June 2002

Report containing aerial photography of the Hayes and Marsden Roads area of Mineral Wells, Texas, for the purpose of mapping historical locations of Camp Wolters onto the modern landscape.
Date: June 2002
Creator: Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Time Critical Removal Action, The Former Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, Final Report (open access)

Time Critical Removal Action, The Former Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, Final Report

Report containing information regarding the cleanup activities at the Camp Wolters area in Texas. Includes forms with daily activities and weekly reports.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: SCI UXO/OE Services
System: The Portal to Texas History
Environmental Contamination: Corps Needs to Reassess Its Determinations That Many Former Defense Sites Do Not Need Cleanup (open access)

Environmental Contamination: Corps Needs to Reassess Its Determinations That Many Former Defense Sites Do Not Need Cleanup

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that cleaning up contamination and hazards at thousands of properties that it formerly owned or controlled will take more than 70 years and cost as much as $20 billion. These formerly used defense sites (FUDS), which can range in size from less than an acre to many thousands of acres, are now used for parks, farms, schools, and homes. Hazards at these properties include unsafe buildings, toxic and radioactive wastes, containerized hazardous wastes, and ordnance and explosive wastes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for identifying, investigating, and cleaning up hazards resulting from military use. GAO found that the Corps lacks a sound basis for its conclusion that 38 percent of 3,840 FUDS need no further study or cleanup action. The Corps' determinations are questionable because there is no evidence that it reviewed or obtained information that would allow it to identify all the potential hazards at the properties, or that it took sufficient steps to assess the presence of potential hazards. GAO also found that the Corps often did not notify owners of its determinations that the …
Date: August 23, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Potassium on Uptake of 137Cs in Food Crops Grown on Coral Soils: Annual Crops at Bikini Atoll (open access)

Effect of Potassium on Uptake of 137Cs in Food Crops Grown on Coral Soils: Annual Crops at Bikini Atoll

In 1954 a radioactive plume from the thermonuclear device code named BRAVO contaminated the principal residential islands, Eneu and Bikini, of Bikini Atoll (11{sup o} 36 minutes N; 165{sup o} 22 minutes E), now part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The resulting soil radioactivity diminished greatly over the three decades before the studies discussed below began. By that time the shorter-lived isotopes had all but disappeared, but strontium-90 ({sup 90}Sr), and cesium-137, ({sup 137}Cs) were reduced by only one half-life. Minute amounts of the long-lived isotopes, plutonium-239+240 ({sup 239+240}Pu) and americium-241 ({sup 241}Am), were present in soil, but were found to be inconsequential in the food chain of humans and land animals. Rather, extensive studies demonstrated that the major concern for human health was {sup 137}Cs in the terrestrial food chain (Robison et al., 1983; Robison et al., 1997). The following papers document results from several studies between 1986 and 1997 aimed at minimizing the {sup 137}Cs content of annual food crops. The existing literature on radiocesium in soils and plant uptake is largely a consequence of two events: the worldwide fallout of 1952-58, and the fallout from Chernobyl. The resulting studies have, for the most part, dealt …
Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Stone, E R & Robinson, W
System: The UNT Digital Library
Family Land Heritage Registry, Volume 16, 2001 (open access)

Family Land Heritage Registry, Volume 16, 2001

Book commemorating Family Land Heritage Day with descriptions of the honorees for 2001 -- including important dates, people, and biographical information -- with related information.
Date: March 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2001 (open access)

Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report: 2001

Annual report compiling information about required groundwater monitoring activities and cases of contamination by state-regulated activities during the 2001 calendar year. Includes tables with the enforcement status of each case of contamination.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2000-2001, District and Campus Listings (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2000-2001, District and Campus Listings

Supplementary compilation summarizing data regarding graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools broken down by districts (alphabetically) and by various demographic characteristics.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Evaluation.
System: The Portal to Texas History