[CPEO-MEF] Dugway Proving Ground-area (UT) former defense site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Family still battling Army over contamination

By Dawn House
The Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
April 13, 2007

It was 1945 when the Army took out a five-month lease on private 
property adjacent to Dugway Proving Ground for training purposes - about 
the same time the United States was preparing to invade Japan.

More than 60 years later, the Cannon family is still trying to get the 
U.S. military to clean up chemical and incendiary weapons exploded in 86 
working mines, as well as conventional bombs dropped on 1,425 acres of 
Tooele County land their grandfather had leased to the government.

U.S. District Judge Dee Benson last week threw out the lawsuit brought 
by siblings Louise, Allan and Douglas Cannon, saying an Army study of 
the site satisfies requirements in the law that remedial action be taken 
by the government.

"This is a warning to anyone who is approached by state or federal 
government to come onto your private land," Louise Cannon said Monday. 
"I don't care what you have to do. Keep them out or you'll wind up in 
the same boat we're in."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5656937

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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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