[CPEO-MEF] Bombs at Florida middle school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Senators to visit school near former bombing range

Rich McKay
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
July 27, 2007

Florida's two U.S. senators are planning to tour the grounds of Odyssey 
Middle School on Monday as part of their efforts to keep the political 
pressure on the Pentagon to clean up a forgotten World War II bombing 
range on which the school was built.

The Army Corps of Engineers said that at least two live bombs were found 
about 1,500 feet from the schoolyard by a survey company hired by a 
private property owner about two weeks ago. The bombs were destroyed by 
a demolition crew from Patrick Air Force Base, but Corps officials said 
that more unexploded bombs, as well as dangerous chemicals and mercury 
leaking from old weaponry, could be out there on the 12,483-acre range.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-range072707,0,6695101.story

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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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