[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS - Raritan Arsenal (NJ) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Edison arsenal cleanup advancing


By TOM CAIAZZA
New Brunswick Home News Tribune (NJ)
March 7, 2008

EDISON — Armed with highly advanced metal detectors and global 
positioning systems the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made 
significant advances in locating and removing outmoded munitions on the 
former Raritan Arsenal site.

The site, vacated by the army in 1963, has undergone cleanup efforts for 
the better part of 20 years and Jim Moore, project manager for the Army 
Corps made his annual presentation to the township's Restoration 
Advisory Board, describing the new cleanup process.

The Army opened the site in 1917 and stored ammunition and other 
ordnance that was left on the site and in the soil when the army pulled 
out in 1963.

The Army stored World War I and World War II vintage explosives on the 
site and the vast majority of the 264 ordnance the corps has pulled from 
the ground were track baton-sized booster adaptors, metal scrap and Mark 
2 type pineapple sized grenades, most of which no longer contain active 
explosives, Moore said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/NEWS/803070461/1001

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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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