From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Sat, 7 Jun 2008 01:11:14 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] FUDS, MUNITIONS: Dugway-Yellow Jacket (UT) |
Army says Dugway site not hazardous By Lee Davidson Deseret News (UT) June 6, 2008After 20 years of fighting about how to handle contamination from once-secret arms tests on lands just outside of Dugway Proving Ground, the Army says a new study has found that none of that contamination is actually dangerous. "The probability that you will walk out of this building and get hit by a car in the parking lot is higher" than anyone being hurt by any old munitions in the "Yellow Jacket" area of the Dugway Mountains, said Jerry Vincent, manager of the Formerly Used Defense Site Program for the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District. He said contamination there now is just old scrap metal from spent rockets, bombs, artillery shells and other munitions — with no intact explosives or chemical agents found. They come from World War II tests that used mines there for research on how to attack cave defenses used by Japanese soldiers. ... For the entire article, see http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700232401,00.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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