[CPEO-MEF] Wide Area Assessment Pilot results

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Initial Results from Wide Area Assessment Pilot Program Demonstrate 
Potential to Release Large Tracts of Land

SERDP & ESTCP Information Bulletin
Spring 2005

Approximately 2,500 DoD sites, comprising over 10 million acres, are 
known or suspected to contain munitions. A typical site encompasses 
thousands of acres with many exceeding 10,000 acres, and a few are 
several hundred thousand acres. Most of these sites are Formerly Used 
Defense Sites (FUDS) for which DoD retains liability for munitions. 
Using current groundbased geophysics, complete characterization and 
remediation of such large areas would cost tens of billions of dollars. 
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) has 
estimated, however, that no more than 20% of those 10 million suspected 
acres are actually contaminated with UXO. Thus, identifying a technology 
or combination of technologies to accurately delineate the contaminated 
areas on each site would significantly reduce the area requiring site 
investigation and response and would allow limited cleanup resources to 
be used more judiciously.

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The article begins on page 3.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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