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
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 »