Camp Bonneville ordnance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Cleanup with a bang 

By KEN OLSEN
The Columbian (WA)
June 24, 2004 

Business is starting to boom at Camp Bonneville as a cleanup contractor
starts unearthing unexploded rockets, grenades and other military
fireworks at the defunct range north of Camas. 

Tetra Tech of Pasadena, Calif., is sifting through the top six inches of
soil at an old landfill where the Army once destroyed munitions and
buried the remains. That effort has yielded 400 items -- including spent
shell, scrap and 25 unexploded items -- since work started in May, said
Ben Forson, senior environmental engineer for the Washington Department
of Ecology. 

The 25 unexploded ordnance also known as UXO have been detonated in
three different groups. No one has complained about the blasts, which
can only occur from 4 to 6 p.m. in order to alleviate the concerns of
neighbors. 

...

Ammonium perchlorate and RDX have been found in the groundwater under
the old landfill and neighbors worry it will migrate into their private
wells in the surrounding area. The Department of Ecology sampled streams
and wells in the area and did not discover any problems. 

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/06242004/neighbor/159225.html

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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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