From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 14 Apr 2007 06:43:39 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Dugway Proving Ground-area (UT) former defense site |
Family still battling Army over contamination By Dawn House The Salt Lake Tribune (UT) April 13, 2007It 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." ... For the entire article, see http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5656937 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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