[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS - Army shells Eagle River Flats (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army shells Eagle River Flats as prelude to year-round operation
CONCERNS: Environmentalists say this could put wildlife at risk.

By JAMES HALPIN
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
February 13, 2008

The Eagle River Flats are being blasted this week as the U.S. Army 
Alaska, hoping to reopen the area to year-round shelling, prepares to 
continue testing the extent to which it has been cleaned up since 
chemicals killed thousands of water fowl there in the 1980s and '90s.

The effort is part of a plan to open the flats to summertime training, 
which has been banned by the Army since 1992 after it became clear that 
white phosphorus in its munitions was the cause of mass waterfowl deaths 
in the 2,200-acre flats.

But environmentalists say plans to reopen the flats to year-round 
shelling will put more wildlife at risk -- in particular Cook Inlet 
beluga whales.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/313477.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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