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The Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant (RVAAP) originally covered 21,419 acres in Portage and Trumbull counties, Ohio. Today, the Ohio National Guard uses most of the site as a training ground. The remaining 1,481-acre property has known, or suspected, contamination.

The degree to which contaminated areas need to be cleaned up is determined by the findings of risk assessments. Scientists evaluate data collected from these areas. Data include analysis of various media, including soil, sediment, surface water, and groundwater. The information is used to determine if there are factors that could increase the likelihood of risk to human health or to vegetation and wildlife.

Cleanup standards will be based on future land use considerations. Contaminated areas will be transferred to the National Guard only after the Army has cleaned them to an acceptable degree.

The Installation Restoration Program directs the cleanup program at RVAAP. This program follows requirements determined by legislation called Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or SuperFund).

RVAAP is not on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list of hazardous waste sites that are priorities for cleanup. RVAAP, however, is included in the EPA’s Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) database. CERCLIS contains information on hazardous waste sites, potential hazardous waste sites, and remedial activities across the nation.

RVAAP is one of the facilities identified by Secretary of Defense Cohen, as a candidate for early environmental cleanup and property divestiture by the Army. Before this action can occur, the Army must determine what and where the contaminants are, how contaminated the property is, what the risk is to the general public, and how to remediate the residual contamination safely and efficiently.

For more information on the laws and regulations behind the cleanup at RVAAP, use these links:
CERCLA follows a defined process for cleaning up hazardous waste sites. For information about the process, click here: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/action/process/sfproces.htm

Some areas of potential contamination at RVAAP do not fall under the IRP or CERCLA programs. These are generally areas where wastes were actively being treated or stored when the IRP began. These areas fall under EPA’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) or the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

The Office of Solid Waste regulates all hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). To learn more about this Act, click here: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/mission.htm

The NPDES was authorized under the Clean Water Act. To learn more about these regulations click here: http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/

The cleanup program at RVAAP is applied to specific areas that have been delineated based on the activities that have occurred at the site. Click to learn about the areas of potential contamination at RVAAP. The table below shows the cleanup status of these specific areas. According to the current plan, all cleanup activities are scheduled for completion by the year 2013, and all long-term monitoring should be completed by 2017.

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RVAAP Cleanup Progress Photo Album

The following table provides summary information about each area of potential contamination. Click on the name of the area found in the second column to link to a description of the area from the Installation Action Plan in PDF format.

Area	Area of Potential Contamination	Status	Historical Use	Acres
1.	Ramsdell Quarry Landfill	Under study	Landfill	10
2.	Erie Burning Grounds	Under study	Burn explosives	35
3.	Open Demolition Area #1	Some unexploded ordance (UXO) removed; No Further Action (2003)	Detonate explosives	6
4.	Open Demolition Area #2	Some unexploded ordance (UXO) removed; additional study needed	Detonate explosives	25
5.	Winklepeck Burning Grounds	Soil and UXO removal planned	Burn explosives	200
6.	C Block Quarry	Additional study needed	Dispose waste	0.3
7.	Bldg 1601 Hazardous Waste Storage	Not under IRP
8.	Load Line 1	Under study	Load explosives	160
9.	Load Line 2	Under study	Load explosives	212
10.	Load Line 3	Under study	Load explosives	174
11.	Load Line 4	Under study	Load explosives	129
12.	Load Line 12	Under study	Load explosives	75
13.	Building 1200	Under study	Demilitarize explosives
14.	Load Line 6 Evaporation Unit	Not under IRP
15.	Load Line 6 Treatment Plant	Not under IRP
16.	Fuze & Booster Quarry Landfill/Pond	Under study	Burning/landfill	45
17.	Deactivation Furnace	Not under IRP
18.	Load Line 12 Pink Waste Water Treatment	Not under IRP
19.	Landfill North of Winklepeck Burning Grounds	Additional study needed	Landfill	10
20.	Sand Creek Sewage Treatment Plant	Not under IRP
21.	Depot Sewage Treatment Plant	Not under IRP
22.	George Road Sewage Treatment Plant	Not under IRP
23.	Unit Training Equipment Site	Not under IRP
24.	Waste Oil Tank	Not under IRP
25.	Building 1034 Motor Pool	Not under IRP		4
26.	Fuze Booster Area Settling Tanks	Not under IRP
27.	Building 854-PCB Storage	Not under IRP
28.	Mustard Agent Burial Site	Additional study needed	Buried waste	0.006
29.	Upper and Lower Cobbs Ponds	Under study	Received load line waste water	9
30.	LL7 Pink Waste Water Treatment	Not under IRP
31.	Ore Pile Retention Pond	Not under IRP
32.	40 MM Firing Range	Under study	Firing range	2
33.	Load Line 6 Fuze and Booster	Under study	Munitions testing	45
34.	Sand Creek Disposal Road Landfill	Additional study needed	Landfill	2.7
35.	Bld 1037 - Laundry Waste Water Sump	Not under IRP		.2
36.	Pistol Range	Additional study needed	Firing range	1.2
37.	Pesticide Buildings S-4452	Not under IRP
38.	NACA Test Area	Additional study needed	Crash-test aircraft	12.4
39.	Load Line 5	Additional study needed	Fuze production	39
40.	Load Line 7	Additional study needed	Load explosives	37
41.	Load Line 8	Additional study needed	Load explosives	44
42.	Load Line 9	Under study	Produced detonators	106
43.	Load Line 10	Additional study needed	Produced primers and percussion elements	36
44.	Load Line 11	Under study	Produced primers and fuzes	47
45.	Wet Storage Area	Additional study needed	Material storage	36
46.	Building F-15 and F-16	Additional study needed	Munitions testing	2
47.	Building T-5301	No further action (2000)	Equipment decontamination
48.	Anchor Test Area	Additional study needed	Test explosive-driven anchors	2
49.	Central Burn Pits	Under study	Burning non-explosive material	20
50.	Atlas Scrap Yard	Additional study needed	Construction camp and scrap yard	150
51.	Dump Along Paris Windham Rd.	Additional study needed	Dump site	0.2