[CPEO-MEF] Uranao dump site, Andersen Air Force Base (GU)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force to finish cleanup
Contractors begin work at Urunao

By Mark-Alexander Pieper
Pacific Daily News (GU)
April 13, 2007

The Air Force is aiming to finish a land rehabilitation project in the 
Urunao area that will leave no restrictions on usage of the northern land.

The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence has contracted Shaw 
Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc. to clean up the 62-year-old dump 
site near Andersen Air Force Base in Yigo.

The contractor has already begun the $13 million project to remove 
debris, which includes housing and construction materials, scrap metal, 
rusted containers, heavy machinery, tires, airplane and vehicle parts, 
and even explosive ordnance.

The shell of a 1,000-pound bomb as well as Japanese and American 
grenades were among the ordnance found on site, according to Gregg 
Ikehara, restoration chief of AAFB's environmental section.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/NEWS01/704130313/1002

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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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