Public Meeting Information
The public meeting will be held Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. (CST) at the Camp Breckinridge Museum and Arts Center, 1116 Village Square Road, Morganfield, KY 42437.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is conducting a public meeting to discuss the Record of Decision (ROD) and the revised selected remedy for the former ranges at the High Use Area (HUA) and Low Use Area (LUA) Munitions Response Site (MRS) at the former Camp Breckinridge, located in Henderson, Union, and Webster Counties, Kentucky. A Proposed Plan was available for public review and comment from June 27 to July 30, 2021. The ROD presents revisions to components of the preferred alternative that was presented in the Proposed Plan, revising the selected remedy to clarify the depth at which the removal action is anticipated to be effective and include subsurface removal in the LUA portion of the MRS. The ROD, including the revised selected remedy, will be presented via a public meeting.
The public is invited to attend the public meeting, which is intended to summarize the revisions to components of the selected remedy to remediate former ranges at the HUA and LUA MRS at the former Camp Breckinridge. Representatives from USACE and the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection will be available to receive oral and written comments and answer related questions. Comments received will be addressed in the responsiveness summary of the ROD.
The public meeting will be held Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. (CST) at the Camp Breckinridge Museum and Arts Center, 1116 Village Square Road, Morganfield, KY 42437.
Public Meeting Agenda
- Summary of Military Munitions Response Program
- Presentation of the Range Investigation Munitions Response Site (MRS) Record of Decision (ROD), including the following:
- Historical Operations and Investigations
- Current Conditions
- Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study Results
- Revised Selected Remedy and Rationale
- Questions
The ROD presents revisions to components of the preferred alternative that was presented in the Proposed Plan, revising the selected remedy to clarify the depth at which the removal action is anticipated to be effective and include subsurface removal in the LUA portion of the MRS.
Summary of Changes to the Selected Remedy
- The Preferred Alternative has not changed: Alternative 2a – Focused Surface and Subsurface Removal (Analog Anomaly Reduction) and LUCs
- Design Elements of this Alternative have been revised.
- The Remedial Action Objective identified in the Proposed Plan provided for depth removal indicated MEC Removal to 36-inches below ground surface (bgs).
- The revised Remedial Action Objective (RAO) lists specific activities anticipated in each depth interval.
- The RAO identified in the Proposed Plan specified a MEC Removal to 36-inches.
- Alternative 2a includes MEC Removal to depth of detection with a design goal of 18-inches bgs.
- The RAO identified in the Proposed Plan specified that the LUA would consist of surface MEC Removal only.
- Alternative 2a includes surface and subsurface MEC Removal in the LUA.
Background Information
Beginning in July 1942, the former Camp Breckinridge served as a troop training facility with a capacity for 30,000 troops and included several small arms, hand grenade, and mortar ranges in Morganfield, Kentucky. It was used again for troop training from 1948-1949 and 1950-1953. In 1955, the camp was partially reactivated to provide Annual Field Training Support for summer National Guardsmen and Army Reserve Unit training and Army Units Special Field Training. The camp was declared excess in 1962.
The former Camp Breckinridge Range Complex No. 1 Munitions Response Site (MRS) East of Morganfield, Kentucky is a 20,766-acre area comprised of overlapping former ranges used from 1942-1962. It contained 33 former ranges (rifle, pistol, tank subcaliber, and machine gun small arms ranges, recoilless rifle ranges, grenade ranges, rocket ranges, demolition ranges, close combat ranges, and attack and assault courses) with direction of fire towards the center of the range complex. In addition, an 18-acre area of concern (the Mortar Round Site) is included because mortars were found in the area.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District manages the former Camp Breckinridge Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) project. Congress established the FUDS program in 1986 to address environmental concerns at properties that were previously under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense and owned by, leased to, or otherwise possessed by the United States at the time of actions leading to contamination by hazardous substances. By the Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) policy, the FUDS program is limited to those real properties that were transferred from DoD control prior to 17 October 1986. USACE manages the FUDS program, which includes the Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) that addresses FUDS where military munitions may be present.