[CPEO-MEF] Ordnance piles found near Rimini, Montana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More unexploded ordnance found in county

By EVE BYRON
Helena Independent Record (MT)
May 7, 2005

For the second time in less than one week, a suspected pile of 
unexploded ordnance - including howitzer shells - was discovered in 
Lewis and Clark County.

Cliff Youmans, an ordnance removal project leader with the Montana Army 
National Guard, confirmed Monday morning that explosives were found west 
of Helena in the vicinity of Rimini on May 1.

Another pile of unexploded ordnance, known as UXO, was found on April 28 
near Helena’s southwestern city limits on Grizzly Gulch.

Youmans said he believes the two incidents are related, in part because 
both involved some devices that weren’t live, even though they looked 
like live rounds and both sites contained howitzer shells. The material 
found last Tuesday looked to be from the Vietnam era, he added.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/05/07/helena_top/000auxo.txt

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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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