[CPEO-MEF] No bombs found at surface at Florida school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corps finds no bombs, says Odyssey Middle is safe

Rich McKay
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
August 16, 2007

It's safe for children to go to school at Odyssey Middle on Monday, the 
Army Corps of Engineers officials said Thursday.

The Corps finished the first leg of its magnetic and soil tests, and did 
not find any sign of World War II-era bombs on the surface of the school 
grounds, officials said in a letter to Orange County public schools.

The on-site investigation was completed Thursday, but the Army Corps 
doesn't yet have all the answers for the school in southeast Orange County.

It will take three or four more weeks to find out whether there are any 
unexploded or leaking bombs deep under the school, said Amanda Ellison, 
a spokeswoman for the Corps' Jacksonville office.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-bk-odysseymiddle-081607,0,4286446.story

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Fax: 650/961-8918
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