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1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YY)
2. REPORT TYPE
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
July 2001
Technical Report
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Characterization of Explosives Contamination at Military Firing Ranges
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
5e. TASK NUMBER
Thomas F. Jenkins, Judith C. Pennington, Thomas A. Ranney, Thomas E. Berry Jr.,
Paul H. Miyares, Marianne E. Walsh, Alan D. Hewitt, Nancy M. Perron, Louise V. Parker,
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
Charlotte A. Hayes, and Major Eric G. Wahlgren
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
72 Lyme Road
ERDC TR-01-5
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
11. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S REPORT
901 North Stuart Street, Suite 303
NUMBER(S)
Arlington, Virginia 22203
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
Soil samples were collected at military training ranges at two Army installations. Three areas were sampled within the training ranges at
Fort Lewis, Washington: the hand grenade range, a 105-mm howitzer firing point, and a portion of the artillery impact area, and a hand
grenade range at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Soil samples were analyzed for explosives-related residues by GC-ECD using SW-846 Method
8095 (draft). All soil samples from both hand grenade ranges were found to have detectable concentrations of RDX. TNT, two environ-
mental transformation products of TNT (2-ADNT and 4-ADNT), and HMX were often detected as well. Concentrations of these analytes
ranged from near a detection limit of about 1 g/kg to 75,100 g/kg for TNT in one surface soil at the Fort Lewis range. Concentrations
were generally an order of magnitude lower at Fort Richardson. Concentrations of RDX in the surface soils were generally an order of
magnitude higher than soils collected at shallow depth.
Surface samples collected in front of two 105-mm howitzers were contaminated with 2,4-DNT, a component of the M1 propellant.
Concentrations ranged from 458 to 175,000 g/kg in front of Howitzer #1 and from 1030 to 237,000 g/kg in front of Howitzer #2, each
of which had fired about 600 rounds in this firing position during the previous month. Other isomers of DNT, 2,4,6-TNT, and two
environmental transformation products of 2,4-DNT (2ANT and 4ANT) were also detected at much lower concentrations.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Impact area
Soil sampling
Training ranges
Artillery range
Firing ranges
RDX
Propellant residues
TNT
Explosives residues
Hand grenades
Site characterization
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