[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, TRIBES: Lake Superior barrel search

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Search for missing barrel sites underway on Lake Superior this month


News From 91.3 KUWS
July 18, 2008
	

A sweep is underway of 110 square miles on western Lake Superior near 
Duluth. The target is half century-old Department of Defense barrels. 
Mike Simonson reports from Superior.

This comprehensive sonar search over parts of the next four months 
should answer questions about the mystery barrels dumped during the Cold 
War years.

The research vessel Blue Heron will be putting in long days during three 
expeditions scanning sectors of western Lake Superior, a strip five 
miles wide and 22 miles long from Lester River to Two Harbors on the 
lake's north shore. The Herron's mission is to find dump sites on Lake 
Superior's bottom that have been lost, whether intentionally or by the 
passing of time where ammunition and weapons parts were dumped by order 
of the Department of Defense.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=2391

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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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