Ft. McClellan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Cleanup tough prospect for former Army bases
McClellan project hot topic at reuse conference

By Jessica Centers
The Anniston Star
August 11, 2004

MONTEREY, Calif. - As the nation's defense communities and the
contractors seeking their business gathered to talk base redevelopment,
the trouble the Army and one of its contractors had gotten into at
McClellan was the hot, underground topic of conversation.

Though it was not on any program agenda, it seemed everyone at the
annual conference of National Association of Installation Developers, an
association of defense communities, knew about the violation at McClellan.

Less than two weeks ago, the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management ordered the Army to stop its unexploded ordnance cleanup at
McClellan, citing the Army Corps of Engineers out of Huntsville, the
transition force at McClellan and their contractor, Tetra Tech, for
hazardous waste violations. 

During an inspection, ADEM personnel found thirteen 81-mm rounds that
were removed during cleanup at the National Wildlife Refuge. Instead of
being detonated and destroyed, they appeared to have been hidden a short
distance away behind trees, some with mounds of leaves and dirt over them.

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for the entire article, see
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5667394/

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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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