[CPEO-MEF] Bogue Sound (NC( UXO - more details

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bogue boaters warned of potential hazards
Island in sound was once used as a bombing range for planes from Cherry 
Point after WWII


PATRICIA SMITH
New Bern Sun Journal (NC)
August 7,2006

BROAD CREEK - It happened a couple of summers ago.

Archie Page was fishing in Bogue Sound off the eastern part of Emerald 
Isle when he felt something in the muddy bottom.

"I thought it was a clam so I reached down and picked it up," Page said.

But what Page had found was not any type of shellfish.

It was a bomb, or more accurately, a piece of a bomb.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=29228&Section=Local

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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