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Weldon Spring Ordnance Works (WSOW) was a 17,323-acre (70.10 km 2) U.S. Government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) facility in St. Charles County, Missouri, 55 km west of St. Louis. [1] The site was originally operated by the Atlas Powder Company during World War II from 1941 to 1945 to produce explosives . [ 1 ]
A post office called Weldon Spring was established in 1875, and remained in operation until 1957. [5] In 1941, the United States Army purchased 17,000 acres of land in the surrounding area. The Weldon Spring Ordnance Works built the largest explosives factory in the United States on the site. [6]
Weldon Spring Former Army Ordnance Works: St. Charles: TNT, DNT, and lead have been identified in soil at several areas on the site, and TNT was detected in 1987 in surface water downstream of the lagoons. [55] 07/14/1989: 02/21/1990
Hamburg was a small town in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States.Hamburg was one of three towns, along with nearby Howell and Toonerville, that were evacuated and terminated in 1940–1941 when the area was taken over by the United States Department of the Army for the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, which manufactured trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) and later processed ...
Howell was one of three towns, along with nearby Hamburg and Toonerville, that were evacuated and terminated in 1940–1941 when the area was taken over by the United States Department of the Army for the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, which manufactured trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) and later processed uranium.
All three towns became part of the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works in 1941 for WWII, which later became part of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP). [ 1 ] Notes and references
Weldon Spring Conservation Area; Weldon Spring Ordnance Works; West Virginia Ordnance Works; Williams Air Force Base; Wright-Patterson Air Force Base;
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