[CPEO-MEF] Sahuarita Air Force Range, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old bomb site to be checked
Army engineers will scour defunct Sahuarita Air Force Range for dangers

By Tim Ellis
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
January 18, 2006

Experts with the Army Corps of Engineers next week will look for old 
bombs and other hazards in an area east of Sahuarita used decades ago as 
a bombing range.

Most of the bombs, bullets and other tools of warfare used in the 
42-square-mile Sahuarita Air Force Range were cleaned up when the U.S. 
military handed the last portion of the range back to the state in 1978.

Although only a few bombs — and other hardware that resembles bombs — 
have been found in the sparsely populated area over the years, corps 
officials believe there's at least a chance that unexploded ordnance may 
still lie buried around the area, said Lloyd Godard, a project manager 
with the Corps of Engineers' Los Angeles regional office.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/164885

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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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