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FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITE INSTALLATION ID: MD39799F138500

NIKE W-92 (ROCKVILLE LAUNCH AREA)

rockville, Maryland

Total Cost

$121K

Money spent on the evaluation and cleanup of hazardous sites at this installation.

Completion Date

2003

The date the DOD says cleanup of all sites was completed. Long term monitoring may continue after this date.

The former NIKE Missile Battery W-92 was used by the U.S. Army as part of the Washington, D.C. defense system. During DOD use, six buildings of block construction were built at the launch area including a guard house, water well building,... see more » The former NIKE Missile Battery W-92 was used by the U.S. Army as part of the Washington, D.C. defense system. During DOD use, six buildings of block construction were built at the launch area including a guard house, water well building, barracks, kennel, missile assembly building, and an acid fueling building. Other construction at the launch area included a wood frame generator building, underground storage tanks, and three missile silos. Structures built at the control area included barracks, a mess hall, a sewage treatment facility (with suspect-PCB contaminated transformer), administration buildings, a generator building, a frequency changer building, a pump house, and an acquisition radar tower. All of the aforementioned structures remained on the two parcels (launch area and control area) at the time the properties were excessed. The former launch area (13.71 acre) is currently owned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and presently uses the former launch area site for storage and testing. The owner requested that there be no restoration activities. The former control area (10.07 acre) is currently used by the Consumers Product Safety Commission as a product test facility. The former DOD buildings, tanks, transformer, and sewage treatment facility are either being used or were removed by the current property owners. (Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) « see less

2 Hazardous Sites

Below are the locations of hazardous sites associated with this military installation, according to the DOD. A site’s contamination may affect a much larger area, including public and private lands and the water supplies beneath them.

High Risk

Medium Risk

Low Risk

Risk Not Evaluated or Not Required

Response Complete

We haven't independently confirmed the location of every site. If you notice a site placed at the incorrect location, please contact us.

Not all sites in the DOD data include location information, so there may be sites listed below that are missing from the map. The risk level of a site refers to a relative risk assessment made by the DOD to prioritize the cleanup of sites.

2 Inactive Sites

Sites where military cleanup actions are complete, according to the DOD. Note that this status does not necessarily mean the site is no longer hazardous, as many of these sites are put under long-term monitoring or other restrictions.

Site ID: 01PRP/HTRW

PRP/HAZARDOUS, TOXIC AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPLETE - NDAI

Contaminated Ground Water

Cost

Unknown

Final Cleanup Action

Jun 2003

Site ID: 02HTRW

HAZARDOUS, TOXIC AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE - CONFIRMATION STUDY - NDAI

Contaminated Ground Water

Cost

Unknown

Final Cleanup Action

Sep 1998

Contaminated Areas

Sediment (Fresh): Risk Not Evaluated

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Update (Dec. 5, 2017): We have changed the source of the installation cost data after being notified by the Department of Defense that they erroneously reported their own cost figures on the DERP website. We are now displaying the costs the department says are the most accurate available, from the Pentagon’s DERP database that we received in a FOIA request.

Note: The risk level of a site refers to a relative risk assessment made by the DOD to prioritize the cleanup of sites.

Data: All data comes from the Defense Environmental Restoration Program and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and will be released soon at the ProPublica Data Store. Read our methodology »