[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS - Pinecastle Range (FL) development requirements

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Key developer must check high-tech site for bombs, Orange County says
Orange lays down rules for high-tech site

David Damron
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
February 6, 2008

Orange County commissioners agreed Tuesday to require a key developer in 
the proposed Innovation Way project to ensure that no bombs or munitions 
are left over from a World War II-era bombing range it sits on.

County leaders also signaled that other Innovation Way developers inside 
or next to the former practice range may face added requirements before 
winning final approval to build in what Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty 
has touted as a future housing and high-technology corridor.

Since August, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has unearthed live 
explosives, munitions, and bomb and rocket debris at nearby Odyssey 
Middle School and surrounding ranches and yards. Given that the area was 
an Army munitions practice site in the 1940s, some fear the old 
Pinecastle Jeep Range debris might have strayed beyond its borders.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-innovation0608feb06,0,2826397.story

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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