[CPEO-MEF] Ottawa River (ONT) UXO

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CFB Petawawa's beaches now open

TINA PEPLINSKIE
Pembroke Daily Observer (ONT, Canada)
June 15, 2007

Local News - After years of being closed because of a project to clean 
up the munitions, beaches adjacent to the base are being reopened to the 
public.

The $5-million project to rid the beaches along the Ottawa River of 
Unexploded Explosive Ordnance (UXO) took four summers to complete, 
beginning in 2002, when the beaches were closed and the public was first 
alerted to the dangers lurking in the sand and water.

The hazard zone stretched approximately 6.5 kilometres from Black Point 
to Black Bear Beach along the north bank of the river next to the base. 
Landmarks in between include Angler Point, Wegner Point, Gust Point and 
Kiska Beach. The affected area comprised 27 hectares of beach and 167 
hectares of river bottom.

Although there is not a 100 per cent guarantee that everything has been 
cleared from the beaches, Base Commander Lt.-Col. Dave Rundle believes 
the problem and risk has been greatly mitigated.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=572885&catname=Local%20News&classif=

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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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