[CPEO-MEF] Yuma County (AZ) ordnance sites

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

No rush to get rid of discarded munitions

BY JAMES GILBERT
YUMA SUN (AZ)
September 16, 2007

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently inspected five sites in Yuma 
County that were once used as training camps in World War II, in search 
of discarded military munitions and unexploded ordnance.

According to project manager Matthew Shun, east county areas are among 
the many former military installations throughout the United States that 
are currently being inspected as part of the Department of Defense's 
Military Munitions Response Site Prioritization program.

"All the sites in Yuma are between Interstate 8 and Interstate 10, in 
that area," said Shun, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Los Angeles 
District. "This was just a brief visual first inspection. There will be 
a more extensive inspection later."


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.yumasun.com/news/munitions_36571___article_news.html/sites_shun.html

--


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


_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military