Kansas City Plant
The Kansas City Plant is part of the Bannister Federal Complex, a 120-hectare
(300-acre) site 19.2 kilometers (12 miles) south of downtown Kansas City,
Missouri. The Department of Energy occupies 56.4 hectares (141 acres) of this
reservation. The Kansas City Plant was constructed in 1942 to build aircraft
engines for the Navy. After World War II, it was used for storage, and in 1949
it was selected for its main mission, manufacturing nonnuclear components for
nuclear weapons. Electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, and plastic
components were manufactured or procured by this facility. Various spills and
leaks from production activities resulted in soil and ground-water
contamination. Ground-water contamination is mainly trichloroethylene and its
degradation products 1.2-dichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride. Soil is
contaminated with volatile organic compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, and
petroleum products. The approximate surface area of contamination is 310,000
square meters (76.6 acres) for ground water and 70,000 square meters (17.3
acres) for subsurface soil. An interceptor trench and wells were used to
contain contaminated ground water. Remediation activities were completed in FY
2006.
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