Happy New Year and hopefully all shared the gift of Human Health Protection that is nothing more than talking and asking questions. Can farmers in Nance County get you a Cornhusker Munitions contaminant sample? See what your thoughts are after reading the gift sharing’s from the last 4 years.
They contaminated creek pumped in both 1966 & 1967 when the plume was getting too close to NW High School and city of Grand Island. The Upper Feds shut down pipe and easements to Platte River west of Grand Island in the late 1970s. Capital Heights area payoffs hit about that time with Erin Brockovich being in Grand Island. Print says they mitigated the plume in the 1980s. Same data said they were dealing with 24 carcinogens and Army Core PR man in 2023 said they were still mitigating TNT components. Lots of locals know the 1980 mitigation was a 2.5 year pumping event that sent plume water all the way to the Platte River at Duncan. Some say preplanned during 1980.81 drought where Loup River about went dry and Prairie Creek Irrigation permit pumps (est 40) never ran out of (plume) watr to irrigate with. Munition workers were never told anything and drank out of the plume pipe on the west side of Grand Island that drained through what Grand Island was built over. Grand Island residents were forced to drink bottled water until they were hooked up to city water that comes from Alda or from west of the munition plant. Today’s domestic well code in Grand Island says water is for lawn use only. Why? Was said the 1985 and 1993 floods scoured pinkish red heavier than water crystals downstream to where flood waters slowed down and crystals fell out. Locals say that painted eastern Nance County sandbars pinkish red with what a test at the time said was Munitions Lubricant and RDX. Bad stuff. They even said the Platte River at Duncan is nicknamed the Duncan Red Sands. Prairie Creek farmers now wonder where water was coming from in other past drought years. 2023 government made 72 wells and 3 miles of drisco huge drainage pipe disappear in 10 days by Grand Island airport after they were told they were pumping the contaminated plume as we speak. There were dead coons and fish at the end of the pipe draining into Moorse Creek which ends up in Prairie Creek. That was an estimated 11,000 acre feet of what looked like coon and fish killing water that all entered the Merrick County aquifer by the time it reached Archer. 2005/2006 Wetland Reserve Program or WRP had eligibility score cards. One item was if they could dig for Red Sands with Iron in it that the score would go way up. Gov. man that put his rubber boots, coat and gloves on to dig must have found some. Nance County WRPs where sandbars in the past were painted pinkish red went to the top of eligibility lists. Later duck/frog pond soil excavation work in 2006 had dirt workers wondering what the Blood Red Vein streaks were in the sand where gov man tested. Other farmers from Grand Island to Duncan can say they have seen red streaks in drainage work in prior years too.
Above is a 1& sharing’s of gift info from others. There is many more public that have knowledge of the above and others want them to tell their gifts of information. Mother Nature has her own stories along with caring government gift information. Will leave that for another day. Will leave the past hu man cancer travesties alone. It all started with that endless list but will say I might be missing as high as 20 of my past customers and know to many current issues.
What conclusion does the above provide? The government has supplied other water treatment systems for Munition Plumes so that would indicate that is the solution they chose. If anyone wants to ask their own questions there should be the Cornhusker Mitigation public meeting coming up soon that had Army Core, EPA, NDEE, Mitigation group and CPNRD there in the past. Army Core PR man complained they cannot get anyone to attend the meeting. Maybe the public should plan on it this year. Ask your own questions, share your own gift information and express your own concerns. If you want this addressed, it will take representation by all of us to do it.
Randy Zmek (The Water Boy)
Fullerton