[CPEO-MEF] Jackson Park (WA) ordnance search

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

No Explosives Turn Up in Jackson Park's Big Dig

By Ed Friedrich
Kitsap Sun (WA)
June 21, 2007



BREMERTON

Hundreds of bright pink flags dot the Jackson Park housing complex 
grounds. They mark where explosives might be found.

But so far Navy contractors haven't unearthed anything that could blow 
up. No bombs. No buried treasure. Just a bunch of construction junk in 
the 4,000 holes they have dug.

The 300-acre complex contains housing for 3,000 Navy personnel. From 
1904 to 1959, the site was home to Naval Ammunition Depot Puget Sound. 
The munitions buildings were demolished between 1973 and 1975, when the 
housing was built.

The latest digging began on April 30 after the Navy and Environmental 
Protection Agency reached agreement about how much work needs to be done 
at the federal Superfund site, said Navy spokeswoman Sheila Murray.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2007/jun/21/no-explosives-turn-up-in-jackson-parks-big-dig/

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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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