Department of Defense
Active Sites/Ravenna AAP
 Winklepeck Burning Grounds (RVAAP 05)


Gorge at Ravenna. Click on photo to view a larger image, download will take about 320 seconds over a 28.8 connection. I.D. p000776.jpg (615814 bytes) 

 

    The total burning ground area consists of 200 acres and has been in operation since 1941. Prior to 1980, open burning was carried out in pits, pads, and sometimes on the roads within the 200-acre area. Burning was conducted on the bare ground and the ash was abandoned at the site. Prior to 1980, wastes treated in the area included RDX, antimony sulfide, Comp B, lead azide, TNT, propellants, black powder, waste oils, sludge from the load lines, domestic wastes, and small amounts of laboratory chemicals. UXO is present at the AOC. From 1980 to 1998, burns of scrap explosives, propellants, and explosive-contaminated materials have been conducted in a raised refractory-lined trays within a 1.5-acre area.

 

Click on photo to view a larger image, download will take about 193 seconds over a 28.8 connection. I.D p000787.jpg (368985 bytes)Close-up of unexploded ordnance (UXO)
(i.e. fuse and boosters, ect)
found at Ravenna.
20,000 UXO's have been removed from
Demolition Area 2 as of March 2000.

    An AEHA geotechnical study was conducted at the active portion of this site in 1992. The Part B permit application covering the active portion of the site was withdrawn in 1992. The burn trays along with the 90-day storage unit, Building 1601, were closed in accordance with Ohio EPA guidance in 1998. Minor amounts of soil contamination were detected in the soils.

    Field work for a Phase II RI was conducted in 1998 and a draft final report is currently under review. The report includes facility-wide background levels as wells as human health and ecological risk assessments. Additional field studies will be conducted in FY 2000 at Winklepeck and RVAAP reference locations to more accurately define the risk to ecological receptors at the site.

Sand Creek at Ravenna. Click on photo to view a larger image, download will take about 331 seconds over a 28.8 connection. I.D. p000789.jpg (642297 bytes) Area where unexploded ordinance (UXO) were disposed of.
 Man in photograph is not standing on the stream bank,
 but rather a mound of UXO's.

Special Recognition:

The Ecotruthing Study at Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant wins USACE National Award: On March 7, 2002.

Ohio EPA received notification from USACE that the Biological Field Truthing at Winklepeck Burning Ground, Ravenna, Ohio was among the 11 award winners out of the 36 projects nominated.  The project won the Chief of Engineers Special Recognition Award-Environmental Preservation.  The jury that gave the project the award stated that : "This project has the potential to be a ground breaking advancement in the methodology of biological assessment."

Ohio EPA, Army Operations System Command, and the Army Corps of Engineers, and their contractors worked together to develop the methodology for this effort.

See:  USACE's April 2002 Engineer Update, Civil Works & Environmental Winners page.

 

For environmental queries relating to this site contact:

Eileen Mohr
OEPA/NEDO/DERR
2110 East Aurora Road
Twinsburg, Ohio 44087
(330) 963-1221

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