[CPEO-MEF] Aerial UXO survey at Fort Ord (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

COPTER COMBS FORT ORD LANDSCAPE
Specially equipped chopper aids in ordnance cleanup

By TONYA CLAYTON
Monterey Herald (CA)
January 29, 2005

A specially equipped helicopter will be flying low and slow over Fort
Ord today at the start of a three-week, high-tech project to map large
areas cluttered with metal debris.

It's the first aerial geophysical survey in the Army's efforts to find
and remove unexploded ordnance at the former training base.

In hopes of speeding the long, slow conversion of the base to civilian
use, the Army wants to pinpoint potentially dangerous materials obscured
by sand, soil or vegetation.

Project manager David Eisen of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said he
hopes to cover about 6,500 acres. The helicopter is excluded from some
areas, he said, by terrain that is too steep and rugged.

The specially equipped Bell 206 L-3 Long Ranger helicopter with long,
white poles sticking out from its underside will be visible sweeping
over the landscape in coming days. It will fly along at about 50 to 60
mph and about three to 20 feet above the ground.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/10766680.htm

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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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