[CPEO-MEF] Former Camp Adair (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old ammo still in Adair

By KYLE ODEGARD
Corvallis Gazette-Times (OR)
April 7, 2006

Agency discusses upcoming inspection of former military base

ADAIR VILLAGE — Soldiers used more than pistols and rifles for target 
practice at Camp Adair during World War II.

They also fired rockets, mortars and heavy artillery and threw live 
grenades.

Some of those explosives are still in the fields and forests where the 
Army practiced, said a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representative.


"It's not a lot over 60 years, but it's pretty consistent - things being 
found every five or 10 years and as recently as 2001. It's still out 
there," said Zane Tuta, technical lead for Shaw Environmental of Denver, 
Colo., a Corps of Engineers contractor.

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FOr the entire article, see
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/04/07/news/community/fri03.txt
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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