It was first on the National Priorities List in 1983 and made the cover of Time magazine. Today NAD continues to serve the nation under all three programs. From there you can branch off to individual district Web sites. Here are a few of NAD's noteworthy environmental cleanup efforts. Clean-up work is sometimes conducted in residential communities, like this project in New York District.
Some shells overshot the target area and landed in the park.
This problem was mostly overlooked until a forest fire caused ordnance to detonate in 1999, and the park was closed. New York District developed a time-critical ordnance removal action, which included finding and removing ordnance within 25 feet of the eight miles of trails and roads in the park. The work was completed on schedule in mid-October, less than seven months. This evaluation should take about 18 months. It is in a highly developed area, and includes 24 active commercial properties slated for cleanup.