[CPEO-MEF] Former Trabuco Bombing Range (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bombs away!
Army Corps of Engineers crews recovered fragments and practice bomb 
casings from the Rancho area.

By ALEJANDRA MOLINA
Orange County Register (CA)
December 13, 2006

If you didn't hear it, you probably didn't know about it.

A dull thud announced a small explosion on Nov. 30, marking the 
completion of a six-week field investigation by the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers at the Former Trabuco Bombing Range.

The area that formerly constituted the Trabuco Bombing Range is now 
within the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and O'Neill Regional Park.

The investigation recovered fragments and practice bomb casings - about 
a half dozen - that contained intact "spotting charges." Investigators 
found no evidence of high explosives.

The hardly-noticeable thud on Nov.30 signaled the controlled detonation 
of the practice bomb casings that rendered spotting charges safe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/communities/rsm/article_1382414.php

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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