[CPEO-MEF] Hawai'i Munitions

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hawai'i still at risk from old munitions

By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
August 13, 2006

Ka'u Paio was digging in a garden at Waimea Middle School in 2002 on the
Big Island with other students when the earth yielded something unexpected
? a live hand grenade.

In 1999, a stretch of beach in Makaha was closed down after a boy found a
grenade, its pin still in place, buried in the sand.

Seventeen-year-old James O'Hare was killed in 1971 when a 40 mm grenade
exploded as he attempted to dismantle it. Police had said the youth found
the explosive at the military's Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island.

In Hawai'i, unexploded ordnance, or UXO, is part of the landscape ? the
consequence of a defensive buildup pre-World War I and the massive rush to
respond in World War II.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/NEWS08
/608130343

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org



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