Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

J. R. Poison, Mechanical Pressing of Explosives, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Burlington, Iowa, 1973. 

Vol 9, Indiana Army Ammunition Plant -10) Ibid, Vol 10, Iowa Army Ammunition Plant 11) Ibid, Vol 11, Joliet Army Ammunition Plant 12) Ibid, Vol 12, Kansas Army Ammunition Plant 13) Ibid, Vol 13, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant 14) Ibid, Vol 14, Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant 15) Ibid, Vol 15, Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant 16) Ibid, Vol 16, Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant 17) Ibid, Vol 17, Milan Army Ammunition Plant 18)... 

During a field test of SABRE technology conducted at the DOD s Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, the U.S. Army Environmental Center evaluated the performance and cost of biotreatment as an alternative to incineration of munitions. Cost projections for this demonstration estimate a unit cost of approximately 300 to 350/yd (D18531T, p. 262). 

No tetryl was detected (detection limit of 20 pg/L) in samples from 44 groundwater sites, 23 surface water sites, or 5 treatment lagoons located at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee (Army 1980). In addition, sediment samples from the 5 lagoons did not show tetryl to be present (detection limit of 90 pg/L). Tetryl was detected in groundwater samples taken at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant at a maximum concentration of 49 pg/L it did not exceed the level of detection (2.9 pg/L) in any surface water samples (Army 1982c). 

Tetryl was detected in sediment samples taken at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant at a maximum concentration of 33 pg/gram (Army 1982c). However, all soil samples were below the level of detection (2 pg/gram). 

Army. 1982a. Contamination survey of Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency. Document no. AD B074331. 

Use of the shield and cart shown in Figure 5 will result in about 3 million dollars savings in modernization of. the detonator production line at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. Costly automated... 

Schneider JF et al., Uptake of Explosives from Contaminated Soil by Existing Vegetation at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Final/Technical Report, Report No. SFIM-AEC-ET-CR-95013, U.S. Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 1995. 

RDX is not produced commercially in the United States (HSDB 1994). Production in the United States is limited to Army ammunition plants such as Holston Army ammunition plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, which has been operating at 10-20% capacity (Army 1986e). Several Army ammunition plants, such as Louisiana (Shreveport, Louisiana), Lone Star (Texarkana, Texas), Iowa (Middletown, Iowa), and Milan (Milan, Tennessee), also handle and package RDX. 

Dept of the Army Technical Manual TM 20— 205(1944) 38a)A.C.VanTine J.L.Corbett, "Inspection of High-Explosive Shell by X-Ray (Radiography of Ammunition),Iowa Ordnance Plant, Burlington,Ia(l944 ) 39) non,... 

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