[CPEO-MEF] Army Halts Sierra Open Burning/Detonation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army orders halt to all munitions burning at Sierra
Army Depot order stops a 40-year practice

By Frank X. Mullen Jr.
Reno Gazette-Journal
September 28th, 2001


The Department of Defense ordered the Sierra Army Depot on Thursday to
cease its 40-year practice of exploding millions of pounds of munitions
in the open air on a hilltop 55 miles upwind of Reno.

Opponents of the open demolition said the DOD’s order means clean air
and fewer health risks for the people of northern Nevada and Lassen
County, Calif. It was the Army’s practice to explode the obsolete bombs,
land mines, rocket motors and grenades only when the wind was blowing
west towards Nevada.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.rgj.com/news2/stories/news/1001735591.php
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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: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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