[CPEO-MEF] Pinecastle Jeep Range (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

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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
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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