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Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene.

Hwy 79 Off Middletown Rd, Middletown, Iowa · ZIP 52638 · EPA ID IA7213820445

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CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
2,4,6-TrinitrotolueneSoil4
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Soil4
Hexahydro-1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-Triazine (Rdx)Soil4
LeadHealth riskNeurotoxin. Even low childhood exposure impairs cognitive development; chronic adult exposure damages kidneys and the cardiovascular system. (EPA, ATSDR)Soil4
CadmiumSoil3
1,3,5,7-Tetranitro-1,3,5,7-Tetrazocane (Hmx)Soil2
1,3,5-TrinitrobenzeneSoil2
2,4-DinitrotolueneSoil2
AntimonyHealth riskInhaled antimony trioxide is an IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; respiratory and cardiovascular effects from long-term exposure. EPA MCL 6 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Soil2
BariumHealth riskSoluble barium compounds are toxic if ingested, affecting the heart, kidneys, and nervous system. Insoluble forms (e.g. barium sulfate) are far less toxic. (EPA)Soil2
Benzo(B)FluorantheneSoil2
Benzo[A]AnthraceneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 2B possible carcinogen; common combustion byproduct and creosote constituent. (IARC)Soil2
Benzo[A]PyreneHealth riskPAH; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; the prototypical PAH used to benchmark PAH-mixture cancer risk. EPA MCL 0.2 µg/L. (IARC, EPA)Soil2
BerylliumSoil2
Chromium(Vi)Health riskHexavalent chromium (Cr-VI) is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation, causing lung cancer; trivalent chromium is far less toxic. (IARC, EPA)Soil2
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Pcbs)Health riskPCBs. IARC Group 1 carcinogen; immune, reproductive, and neurological effects; bioaccumulate in fish and breast milk. Banned in 1979; persist as legacy contamination. (IARC, EPA)Soil2
ThalliumSoil2
CopperHealth riskInhaled copper fumes cause metal-fume fever; chronic ingestion above EPA's 1.3 mg/L action level damages the liver. (EPA)Soil1
Dibenzo(A,H)AnthraceneSoil1
Hexahydro-1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-Triazine (Rdx)Groundwater1
IronSoil1
MercuryHealth riskNeurotoxin. Methylmercury bioaccumulates up the food chain and damages the developing nervous system. (EPA, ATSDR)Soil1
Potassium-40Soil1
Unexploded Ordnance (Uxo)Solid Waste1
Uranium-234Health riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen; chemical kidney toxicity exceeds the radiological risk at most environmental levels. EPA MCL 30 µg/L total uranium. (IARC, EPA)Buildings/Structures1
Uranium-234Health riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen; chemical kidney toxicity exceeds the radiological risk at most environmental levels. EPA MCL 30 µg/L total uranium. (IARC, EPA)Soil1
Uranium-234/235/238Buildings/Structures1
Uranium-234/235/238Soil1
Uranium-235Health riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen; chemical kidney toxicity exceeds the radiological risk at most environmental levels. EPA MCL 30 µg/L total uranium. (IARC, EPA)Buildings/Structures1
Uranium-235Health riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen; chemical kidney toxicity exceeds the radiological risk at most environmental levels. EPA MCL 30 µg/L total uranium. (IARC, EPA)Soil1

Showing the top 30 pairs by SEMS citation count. 2 additional (contaminant, pathway) pairs are recorded for this site.

Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

No Groundwater PWSes Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

No SDWIS public water systems drawing groundwater (or mixed sources) serve a community whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Empty results are not a guarantee of non-impact — distance is computed to served-place centroids, and SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations.

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Des Moines County, Iowa (no Census block groups within 1 mile and no host city — falling back to containing county): a population of 38,824. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
14.6%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
14.9%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
6.4%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
20.7%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year) + USEPA-clone EJ blockgroup stats (raw indicators + EJ disparity mirror). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.