Tobyhanna Range Cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Tobyhanna State Park steps closer to safety

By Chris Birk
Scranton Times Tribune (PA)
April 21, 2004

TOBYHANNA -- State and federal officials announced a plan Tuesday to
make visiting Tobyhanna State Park a bit safer.

An Army artillery range for 37 years, about 21,000 acres of state park
and game lands remain littered with unexploded ammunition and shrapnel.
Throughout the park's history, visitors and workers have stumbled across
artillery rounds and casings, remnants of the area's contributions in
two world wars.Now, the state Department of Environmental Protection and
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin a cleanup and study on site,
detonating and removing scores of buried shells. Officials will also
initiate a two-year engineering and cost analysis study of the range.

Finding funding

The goal is to find a publicly approved method of remediation -- and get
it funded and finished as quickly as possible.

About a year ago, a cache of ammunition was found buried along 12 miles
of unpaved roads and trails in state Game Lands No. 127. The area was
cordoned off, and experts from Weston Solutions Inc., a West Chester
firm hired to conduct the cleanup and study, are now using high-tech
digital equipment to scour the stretch for anything suspicious.

For the next two or so months, afternoons in the area may be marked by
scattered explosions; Weston workers will detonate and remove any
unexploded ammunition. The last Time-Critical Removal Action, as the
cleanup is called, was conducted in 1997-98, turning up 276 live
ordnance items on a 200-acre tract.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11357385&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6

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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>
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