Munitions cleanup at Harley plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Munitions team preps for cleanup
Work starts Tuesday at Harley

By MICHELLE STARR
York Daily Record/Sunday News (PA)
September 5, 2004

Tucked behind the gates of Harley-Davidson?s Springettsbury Township
plant is a search party looking for metal.

The team is using tools, like industrial-style metal detectors, to find
past generations? military garbage to scrap or destroy.

This garbage started collecting in 1941 when York Safe & Lock produced
40mm anti-aircraft gunmounts.

It continued to gather when the U.S. Navy took over, and Blaw-Knox
managed the site, from 1944 to 1964. They expanded production with
war-service weapons and rocket launchers, 3?/50 guns, 20mm aircraft guns
and power drive units for 5?/54 guns. American Machine & Foundry
continued such work until 1981.

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for the entire article, see
http://ydr.com/story/main/39607/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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