Tracking EOD Incidents

[Pauline Simon <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

In my recent message about the discovery of old 500-pound bombs north of
San Francisco, I asked:

"Does anyone track such discoveries? I know there isn't a good list of
actual explosive incidents involve old munitions. A database of both
would be valuable."

I received the following response from someone in the military:

"As far as I know, there is no central tracking system for emergency
responses performed by military Explosives Ordnance Disposal units. Each
individual EOD unit is required to keep records of its emergency
responses for 3 years. Many feel this is inadequate, and that records
should be centralized and kept in perpetuity. Such records would augment
the historical records searches we do on Formerly Used Defense Sites and
help us more accurately identify areas where UXO is known to exist."

These sound like good ideas to me!

Lenny Siegel

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org



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