[CPEO-MEF] Six more WWII shells found in Butner subdivision

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Six more WWII shells found in Butner subdivision
By Hunter Lewis : The Herald-Sun
hlewis@heraldsun.com
Mar 7, 2003 : 10:15 pm ET

BUTNER -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will probe deeper into the
soil of a Butner subdivision after finding six more World War II-era
shells, including a bazooka round and hand grenade, during a dig last
month.

The findings bring the total number of live explosives found in Lakeview
Estates to at least eight. Corps engineers also found 66 pieces of
exploded shells during the five-week survey and six-inch dig last month
in the modest subdivision next to Lake Butner.

In the 1940s, Army trainees fired thousands of shells at a target area
near where the 7-year-old subdivision now sits. The munitions range was
one of 15 at the 40,000-acre Camp Butner, a base that housed and trained
some 40,000 U.S. Army troops for combat.

When the Army turned the land back over to the state and to private
residents, it disclosed the leftover shells in the deed. But over time,
as the land was parceled out and sold, the original deed was not
consulted.

Kimberly and Danny Cash knew nothing about the contaminated land until
their son Taylor, then 8 years old, found a live bazooka round while
raking the yard in Lakeview Estates in 2001.

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