NORDLAND — Naval Magazine Indian Island may soon be removed from the nation’s cleanup list, says a Navy draft ecology assessment report made available earlier this month.
The report analyzed the environmental cleanup efforts implemented by the Navy at one of the sites on Indian Island in the past decade.
The longtime naval ordnance depot was placed on the national priority list in 1994.
Site 10 is one of the largest of 18 cleanup sites at the 2,716-acre base, which receives, stores, maintains and issues military ordnance.
The munitions include bombs, missiles, torpedoes, bullets and shells.
The Navy’s engineering department conducted a second five-year review, outlined in the report.
Consultant URS Group Inc. aided the Navy efforts in carrying out inspections, conducting interviews and reviewing administrative records and production reports.
The group had also contracted with federal government for security and justice sector program management office support.