[CPEO-MEF] Hampton Roads (VA) ordnance series

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Part one of five

Bombs left behind
What once was isolated land is now prime - and potentially lethal - real 
estate.

BY JOHN M.R. BULL AND STEPHANIE HEINATZ
Daily Press (VA)
June 3, 2007


-- The military has left a perilous legacy in Hampton Roads, from bombs 
embedded in the shores of the Chesapeake Bay to unexploded artillery 
shells along prime oyster grounds on the James River.

As the military has shut bases, bombing ranges and ordnance depots - and 
as it prepares to depart Fort Monroe in Hampton - it has left behind a 
landscape peppered with unexploded munitions that can still claim lives.

And as the region's population has grown with new neighborhoods and 
business parks, the buffer zones between unexploded bombs and playing 
children has narrowed.

Boaters, oystermen, students, poachers - and some golfers - are now at 
risk. In most cases, the military has known of the lingering danger for 
decades, even generations.

It has done little about it.

Some warning signs have been posted. A few studies were done. More are 
planned.

Cleanup financing is anemic, and at only two sites in the region have 
any munitions been dug up - on what's now a college campus/office park 
in Suffolk and on a golf course at Langley Air Force Base.

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-22171sy0jun03,1,7475315.story

See also
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-mulberryjun04,1,4851864.story?ctrack=3&cset=true
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-plumtreejun04,1,1046171.story
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-24173sy0jun05,0,4820450.story
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-22173sy0jun05,0,3247584.story?page=2
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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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