[CPEO-IRF] Camp Bonneville (WA) transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County could get Army site by June
Bonneville - Munitions still litter the ex-military training camp, which 
the county wants to make into a park


ALLAN BRETTMAN
The Oregonian
March 6, 2006

VANCOUVER -- Perhaps as early as June, the U.S. Army expects to hand 
over a munitions-studded former military training site, five miles east 
of the city limits, to Clark County.

For about a year, the county has anticipated the transfer of Camp 
Bonneville, but the targeting of a specific month is a significant step 
in a lengthy process that has been 11 years in the making.

The transfer has been repeatedly delayed, partly because of an unknown 
amount of unexploded howitzer shells and other munitions littering the 
3,800-acre site, which was used for training between 1909 and 1995.

County officials say a four- to five-year cleanup plan, costing the 
federal government about $25 million, can eventually make the expanse 
safe as a public park. Nevertheless, continuing revelations of ordnance 
and chemical contamination -- even after 11 years -- has prompted 
opponents to say the government is acting hastily.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/metro_north_news/1141617305232700.xml?oregonian?nn&coll=7

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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