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Unexploded military ordnance and highly toxic chemical munitions, some dating back to World War I, are a worldwide concern --especially at closed military bases that are being redeveloped for housing or civilian use. Experts estimate that the United States alone could spend between $50 and 250 billion dollars to clean up these sites, many of which are now in high-population-density residential areas. You might live near one such site right now. Richard Albright's Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions is an invaluable tool for these very communities who find they must undertake the daunting task of cleaning up old military ordnance ranges and explosive and chemical weapons dumpsites at their back door. The book explains what, how, and where to look for munitions and their residual contamination. Among its many valuable resources include lists of explosives, chemical warfare materials, and breakdown products that the soil and groundwater must be tested for; methods for archival research; descriptions of remote sensing and geophysical techniques; safety issues; a chemical weapons, explosives, and ordnance primer; known and unknown range lists; and a case study of documents written for cleaning up one of the worst ordnance sites in the US: the World War I American University Experimental Station (AUES), also known as Spring Valley, in the District of Columbia. Albright steers the reader away from many common misconceptions about weapons site remediation, and exposes the minefield of lies that are all too often used to placate the public.

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