From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 7 Aug 2005 20:42:45 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Homes and UXO at former Camp Wheeler (GA) |
Buried ordnance has residents wondering if their yards hold hidden danger By S. Heather Duncan MACON TELEGRAPH (GA) August 7, 2005 When Jackie Clark bought land in Twiggs County in 1979, she says, the owner didn't tell her there might be artillery explosives under her house. Although she later heard an infantry training camp had once been located nearby, she still didn't think the metal objects she found in her yard were anything but lawn-mower parts. Clark learned five years ago that they were pieces of mortar shells left from Camp Wheeler, where military training occurred in World War II. She obtained a 1949 map showing the Army had put deed restrictions on much of the land that is now her neighborhood, forbidding any digging because so much live ordnance remained. ... For the entire article, see http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/12322615.htm -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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