DE SOTO, Kan. — Five years after federal funding dried for up environmental cleanup at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in Johnson County, Kansas, the U.S. Army has announced it will resume removing pollutants so the land can be redeveloped.
While that comes as good news for Kansas and Johnson County officials, it’s tempered by a timeline that says it could be 2028 or beyond before the site is ready for the first house, shop or office to be built on the 9,000-plus acres near De Soto.
