[CPEO-MEF] Pyramid Lake (NV( ordnance cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lake Cleanup Inspires Deep Innovation

By David Killam, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District
Environmental Update, U.S. Army Environmental Center
Summer 2006

It’s 1945. The war is over and you have a lot of ammunition to get rid 
of. What do you do? Simple — you dump it into the lake. That’s the way 
people used to think.

Sixty years later that ammunition is still at the bottom of the lake. 
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will clean up the ammunition, but it’s 
no easy task. Pyramid Lake, Nev., covers more than 110,000 acres, nobody 
knows exactly where the ammo is, and the Paiute Indians, who own the 
lake, have concerns of their own.

The team that finally removed the ammunition from the Pyramid Lake 
Formerly Used Defense Site earned the fiscal 2005 Secretary of Defense 
Environmental Award for Environmental Restoration. But the award 
represents years of cooperation and innovation.

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For the entire article, see
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/update/sum06/sum0611.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>
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