First quarter FNOD Restoration Advisory Board meeting rescheduled for March 25

Norfolk District Public Affairs
Published March 12, 2015
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold its 2015 FNOD quarterly restoration advisory board meeting March 25, 6-8 p.m., at the Courtyard Marriott, located at 8060 Harbour View Boulevard, Suffolk, Virginia.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold its 2015 FNOD quarterly restoration advisory board meeting March 25, 6-8 p.m., at the Courtyard Marriott, located at 8060 Harbour View Boulevard, Suffolk, Virginia.

SUFFOLK, Va. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers invites the public to attend a meeting about restoration efforts at the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot at 6:15 p.m., March 25.

Corps project managers will discuss the latest clean-up progress at the Formerly Used Defense Site during the project’s first quarterly Restoration Advisory Board meeting at the Courtyard Marriott, located at 8060 Harbour View Boulevard here.

Current topics the Corps will discuss include:

·       Status of Project 20 (Other Hazardous Materiel Sites)
·       Status of Projects 17 (Legacy Site Investigation Sites), 18 (Cantonment Area), 19 (Renovation Plant), and 21 (Fuel Storage Tanks)
·       Mockup of FNOD All Partners Access Network (APAN) website
·       Current FNOD Website statistics and enhancements (electronic document access)

The quarterly RAB meetings serve as a public forum for the USACE’s remediation progress at the 975-acre defense depot, located near the former Tidewater Community College Portsmouth campus. During the meetings, RAB members ask questions and provide input on proposed work plans and restoration efforts to an interagency project team consisting of the USACE, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The project’s RAB are local stakeholders that include community members, local businesses, local and state officials, a representative of the Tidewater Community College Real Estate Foundation, FNOD property owners, and interagency project team members from the Corps, the VDEQ and the U.S. EPA.

All FNOD quarterly meetings and applications for RAB membership are open to the public and the Corps encourages community members to attend and ask questions during the meeting.

The Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot became a matter of public concern when a piece of crystalline TNT was found at the Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth Campus, in 1987.

This initiated extensive historical research, investigations, testing and removal actions. As a result of these findings, in 1999 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed this site on the National Priority List.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, manages the FUDS project at the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot. Project support is also provided by the Huntsville District (the Corps’ center for expertise on ordnance-related issues), and the Norfolk District for other restoration efforts.