Health consultation : Des Moines (Ex) Ordnance Site Landfill and Lagoon Complex Prairie Trail Development Site [Ankeny] (2012)

The Prairie Trail Development Area is located in the southern portion of Ankeny, Iowa. This development area is located in an area that was formally occupied by the Des Moines Ordnance Plant. The Des Moines Ordnance Plant was constructed for the production and testing of small arms munitions for use during World War II. The Landfill and Lagoon Complex was utilized for disposal of wastes from the ordnance plant and also from various entities that utilized the site property until 1991. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is verseeing the cleanup of the Landfill and Lagoon Complex. A portion of the remainder of the site property had been used for burning of scrap explosives, the storage and disposal of chemicals, a disposal pond, testing of products, and various munitions manufacturing activities. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is overseeing the cleanup of this remaining portion of the site property. The Iowa Department of Public Health has been contacted by residents within the Prairie Trail Development Area and by individuals that have an interest in relocating to the Prairie Trail Development Area. These residents are concerned with any environmental contamination that will be left after site remedial activities are completed. These residents want to know if any remaining environmental contamination will adversely impact their health or the health of their families.

Additional Return for Ordnance Stores for the Use of Capt. Thos. Biddle’s Compy Corps of Artillery, June 24, 1814

Jacob Hindman (1789-1827) was an American military officer who was a captain of the Second U.S. Artillery during the War of 1812. He commanded troops at the battles at Fort George and Stony Creek in 1813, and in June of that year became the major of the Second Artillery. He remained in this position until May of 1814 when the regiment was merged with the Corps of Artillery. During the Niagara campaign in 1814, Hindman’s company commanders included Nathan Towson, Thomas Biddle, John Ritchie, and Alexander Williams. During the British attack on Fort Erie in August 1814, Hindman led an assault for which he later received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel for “gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie”. In 1815, he received an additional brevet for “meritorious services”. He is generally regarded as one of the most successful artillerists of the War of 1812. James Hall (1793-1868) served with the U.S. military as a second lieutenant in the Second Artillery during the War of 1812. He fought in the Battle of Lundy’s Lane and was General Brown’s messenger during the attack on Fort Erie. He left the military in 1818 and became a newspaper editor and author. His experiences during the War of 1812 provided material for two stories, The Bearer of Despatches and Empty Pockets. Much of his work sought to popularize the West and promote western authors.

Fort Richardson Ordnance Detonations and the Harbor Porpoise: A Case Study in Marine Mammal Bioacoustics

Hearing is extremely important for cetaceans because it is their “principal sense” (Weilgart, 2007) thus the harbor porpoise and other marine animals are highly dependent on sound for survival. This is why we should care about the impact of noise on animals like the harbor porpoise. Since sound travels so well in water, an explosion, sonar, boat noise, etc. can affect a very large area and thus many different species of marine mammals. Although military actions such as low frequency sonar have made recent news, noise has been affecting cetaceans, especially beaked whales, since at least 1991 (Weilgart, 2007). This study is an investigation of the possible impacts of artillery detonated on land on harbor porpoise hearing and covers some of the history of Fort Richardson, the legal and historical aspects and history of this type of concern, the science and physics of sound, marine mammal hearing and general biology of the harbor porpoise. Data were collected at the Fort Richardson Army base during June of 2007 by researchers from the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island and will be used to determine the possible impacts that these detonations could have on the harbor porpoise.

The royal atlas of England and Wales, reduced from the ordnance survey; a complete series of topographical maps, physical and statistical charts, town plans, and index of 35,000 names ..

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the maps and plans and other publications of the Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, and the Isle of Man, to 1st January 1894 ...

Supplemented by: Publications issued ... January, 1894[-June 1895]. [London : H.M.S.O., 1894-1895]. 18 no. Caption title. Number for April 1895 wanting. Bound with Catalogue of maps and plans ... of England and Wales, and the Isle of man, to 1st of Jan. 1888.

Explosive ordnance disposal unit operations /

Template in pocket.

The Reigate sheet of the one-inch Ordnance survey; a study in the geography of the Surrey hills,

Maps in detached pocket.

Reports of experiments with small arms for the military services, by officers of the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army.

Mode of access: Internet.

Pamphlets on ordnance.

Most of the pamphlets are issued by the U.S. Ordnance dept.

Report of Select Committee, to inquire into the propriety of establishing a national foundry for the purpose of fabricating ordnance...

Mode of access: Internet.

Ordnance storage civilian career program.

Supersedes OCII 320-2-54, 21 October 1954 and 00 letter (00/4UO-21161) 25 May 1954.

Philips' handy atlas of the counties of England : including maps of North & South Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man : reduced from the ordnance survey, and coloured to shew the new parliamentary divisions, according to the redistribution bill, 1885.

Mode of access: Internet.