Re: [CPEO-MEF] ARE THERE BOMBS BURIED IN YOUR BACKYARD?

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The following was posted by Lorenz Thomas
<Lorenz.Thomas@epamail.epa.gov>
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Sioux Army Depot is a FUDS about eight miles north west of Sidney,
Nebraska that has areas littered with metal scrap from earlier OB/OD
operations. when it was an active depot. Areas outside of the OB/OD pits
have as much as 1,200 to 1,400 pounds of ordnance scrap per 100' X 100'
foot grid. There has been UXO recovered from a 3,000 ' radius of the
disposal pits. Practices in the past when the depot was an active base
were similar to lighting a string of fire crackers. Not all of them
go off and the ones that didn't explode are scattered around the pits.
The Army is presently funding a ground survey of the area with some
removal and disposal but they have been limited in their response by low
funding.

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