[CPEO-MEF] Storm King cleanup progresses

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Friday, July 26, 2002

Artillery cleanup leads way for park
reopening

1,400 acres ready for Sept.

By William A. Valente
Poughkeepsie Journal

BEAR MOUNTAIN -- Two large sections of Storm King State Park could be
opened to the public within a month, officials from the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers announced at a conference at the Bear Mountain Inn Thursday
night. 

The park has been closed since the summer of 1999, when a fire that
burned through about 1,000 acres detonated about 30 unexploded artillery
shells left there for generations. 

The park is between the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and
Cornwall. The academy and a Cold Spring foundry had used the mountains
as a backstop for artillery testing and practice from the 1800s until
about 1940. 

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for the entire story, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/friday/localnews/stories/lo072602s1.shtml


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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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