[CPEO-MEF] Former Defense Sites in Mississippi

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CORPS HUNTS FOR WAR REMNANTS

By MICHAEL NEWSOM
Biloxi Sun-Herald (MS)
September 29, 2007

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is combing the nation's terrain for 
unused mortar rounds, bullets and grenades, and they're searching 
abandoned World War II training grounds in South Mississippi.

Decommissioned military airfields and firing ranges are the focus of an 
ongoing U.S. Department of Defense program to remove ordinance, as well 
as locate any contamination from fuels, oils and chemical weapons, which 
could pose a threat to the public or damage the environment.

Officials estimate the number of abandoned World War II-era U.S. 
military facilities is well over 1,000, but the current round of the 
project is aimed at about 260 sites across the U.S. Mississippi has 
nearly 30 on the list, with six in South Mississippi.

Future rounds of the program could encompass the remainder of the 
training sites and airfields that sprang up during the military 
personnel blitz in the later years of World War II. Most of those 
installations were decommissioned by 1950, and many of the munitions and 
chemicals were hastily buried.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/278/story/153035.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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