[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS - Bartow Municipal Airport (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corps of Engineers Seeks Information on Buried Munitions at Bartow Airport

By S. L. FRISBIE
Polk County Democrat (FL)
February 13, 2008
	

An inspection team that visited Bartow Municipal Airport last year found 
no additional buried munitions of the type found in December 2000, but 
the Army Corps of Engineers would like to hear from anyone who has 
knowledge of any more.

A consultant's report acknowledged that there may be more explosives in 
a 20.19-acre burial pit on the airport.

The airport, built as Bartow Army Air Field and later renamed Bartow Air 
Base, was a World War II pilot training facility, put into service in 
1943. It was closed in 1945, and was reopened from 1950 to 1960 as a 
pilot training school operated by civilian contractors.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.polkcountydemocrat.com/articles/2008/02/13/news/01buried.txt

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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
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