[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Otterbein College - Kilgore bomb plant (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Otterbein suing over promised cleanup of WWII munitions factory
Government gave site to college in 1962

By Jodi Andes
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH (OH)
July 25, 2008

The Westerville site was home to the factory that assembled ammunition 
used during World War II, including some of the bombs dropped over Japan.

But 63 years after the war ended, the land that housed the former 
munitions factory still remains contaminated.

Enough is enough, say Otterbein College officials.

On Tuesday, the college sued the U.S. Department of Defense, saying the 
government promised the site had been decontaminated when it was given 
to the school by the government in 1962. The lawsuit demands that the 
entire site be made safe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/07/25/explosive_land.ART_ART_07-25-08_B3_J6ARF5A.html?sid=101

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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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