Cleanup project.Tetra Tech Inc., a Pasadena-based consulting and engineering company, announced Wednesday it won a $20 million contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for the remediation of a contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. site in Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States. . Cleanup of the former Volunteer Army Ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). Plant in Chattanooga will take up to 10 years. The plant was used by the Army to manufacture TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. beginning in World War II. The project will be conducted along with a groundwater study. Tetra Tech is conducting similar cleanup operations at two other ammunition plants. |
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