[CPEO-MEF] Anza-Borrego (CA) munitions cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Operation desert cleanup

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to collect WWII practice ordnance 
left in Anza-Borrego

By J. Harry Jones
San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
July 9, 2006

BORREGO SPRINGS – More than 60 years ago, thousands of young American 
soldiers, under the command of Gen. George S. Patton, trained in the 
desert east of this town in anticipation of coming battles against the 
Nazis in North Africa.

Now it's finally time to clean up what was left behind.

Within the coming year, the Army Corps of Engineers is planning a major 
effort to locate and destroy bombs, rockets and artillery shells left by 
troops between 1942 and 1944.

On average of about once a week, the Corps says, the Sheriff's 
Department or Anza-Borrego Desert State Park rangers receive a report 
from someone who has discovered ordnance in the area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060709/news_lz1mi9operati.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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