[CPEO-MEF] Camp Bonneville (WA) ordnance

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Ordnance stalls Camp Bonneville's transfer to Clark County 
Environment Wrangling over a cleanup continues and leaves in doubt a May 
turnover 


ALLAN BRETTMAN 
The Oregonian 
November 14, 2005

VANCOUVER -- Mortar shells used to fly just five miles from today's
Vancouver city 
limits. 

The howitzers have been silent for years at Camp Bonneville, a military
reservation 
used as a firing range from 1910 to 1995. Artillery and mortar ammunition, 
air-launched rockets, shoulder-fired rockets, guided missiles, bombs, land
mines, 
practice grenades, fuses and small-arms ammunition were stored or used at
the 
site, more than half of which is forested. 

Now, if the U.S. Army and Clark County parks planners have their way, the
property 
will be turned over to the county in May. And the county one day would
transform 
part of the land into a park with yurts, RV camping and an equestrian
center. 

A determined group of citizen activists, however, is working to make sure
that does 
not happen until they have more assurance that the 3,840-acre reservation
does 
not have unexploded ordnance and does not pose a long-term environmental 
threat. 

...

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