[CPEO-MEF] Chino (CA) lawsuit over unearthed WWII munitions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This site is not an old range, but the case raises the emerging issue 
of developers paying for munitions response and seeking compensation 
from the military, later. - LS]

Unearthed WWII munitions spur Inland suit against Army

INLAND: A developer is suing the Army, asking to be reimbursed for 
cleanup costs at the site.


By JENNIFER BOWLES
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 16, 2005


A World War II pilot on a training mission over the Inland region in 
1943 crashed his fighter plane in a tomato patch and died despite 
farmers trying to save him by tossing dirt on his burning body.

Explosive remnants of that long-forgotten tragedy -- munitions and 
cannon shells -- were uncovered in present-day Chino in the vicinity of 
a future school where hundreds of children living in a master-planned 
community would be walking and playing.

The discovery two years ago astonished the developers who said they 
spent more than $3 million sifting through 25 acres of dirt to remove 
the explosives. Now they want the Army to pay them back.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_D_fighter17.13497251.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
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