2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 18 Jan 2007 05:31:31 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Pinecastle Jeep Range (FL)
 
Soil samples could turn up old explosives left in east Orange

Jeannette Rivera-Lyles
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
January 17, 2007

The Army Corps of Engineers has began collecting soil samples at a World War II-era test range in east Orange County in a search for unexploded ordinance, bomb fragments and chemical contaminants.

The former 12,483-acre Pinecastle Jeep Range, just east of Orlando International Airport, was used from 1943 to 1946 as a training site for air-to-ground rocket firing and high-explosive bombing.

It was also a demonstration site for politicians and military top brass to view firepower.

Corps officials think the area could still be riddled with explosives and other contaminates.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-locbombs1707jan17,0,3999084.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-orange
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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