[CPEO-MEF] Old Arizona bombing ranges

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developers covet 1940s bombing ranges

Carl Holcombe
The Arizona Republic
November 26, 2006

In the 1940s, Army Air Corps bombers thundered across the skies of 
Arizona, dropping practice bombs on mock towns and giant bull's-eye 
targets on the desert floor during practice runs for the real thing in 
the European and Pacific theaters.

Nearly six decades later, the state's housing market has started turning 
the middle of nowhere into the middle of somewhere, particularly in 
fast-growing Pinal County, site of 14 former practice bombing spots.

And those practice bombs from long ago are creating a problem for 
housing today. Some of them, loaded with flash-and-burn black powder 
charges, may still be waiting to explode.

Former defense sites "used to be way out in rural parts of the county," 
said Ken Buchanan, assistant Pinal County manager. "Now, they're in the 
path of the development boom or are in the development."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/1126Defensesites1126.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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