[CPEO-MEF] Surf City (NJ) munitions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AP NewsBreak: Army Corp says LBI beaches free of munitions

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press/Long Island Newsday
May 14, 2007

SURF CITY, N.J. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it 
has found and removed all the World War I-era military munitions 
possible to find on two Long Beach Island beaches, which could be opened 
to the public by the end of this week.

The material was dumped at sea by the military decades ago, where it sat 
until it was sucked off the ocean floor and shot through a dredge pipe 
up onto the sand as part of a beach replenishment project over the winter.

Keith Watson, project manager for the operation to sweep Surf City and 
Ship Bottom clean of discarded munitions, said work crews have recovered 
1,080 pieces of material, including fuses and other military hardware.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--beaches-oldmuniti0514may14,0,5836285.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

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Lenny Siegel
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