[CPEO-MEF] Depot's open-air munitions-disposal site is catching flak

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Depot's open-air munitions-disposal site is catching flak

Ordnance explosions trigger anger and lawsuit

BY BRANDON BAILEY
Mercury News 

HERLONG -- The bombs usually go off around 3:30 p.m.

With a thunderous CRAA-ACK, the first shock wave sets dishes rattling in 
houses on the far side of Honey Lake. From their front porch 12 miles 
away, Kim Ramos and Larry Beach can watch the fireballs rising from the 
side of Skedaddle Ridge, as dirty brown mushroom clouds drift across an 
otherwise blue sky.

It's an almost-daily occurrence in the high desert of Lassen County. The 
U.S. military burns and explodes thousands of tons of surplus rockets 
and bombs every year here at the Sierra Army Depot, the nation's largest 
site for open-air disposal of live munitions.

The Army says it's necessary, but some rural residents are angry about 
the noise and vibrations --and fearful that the smoke and fumes are 
endangering their health.

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