[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Southwestern Proving Grounds (AR)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

SWPG secrets still a danger

By STEPHANIE HARRIS-SMITH (AR)
Hope Star
July 28, 2008

An investigation was recently launched on the Hope Upland Wildlife 
Management area (off Hempstead County Road 26), one time known as the 
"hot zone" for munitions testing at the Southwestern Proving Ground 
during World War II. An investigative team detonated munitions found in 
the investigation Friday on the management area.

The Southwestern Proving Ground covers a 50,000-acre, 78-square mile 
area. Due to the size of the grounds, and the amount of ordnance tested 
there during World War II, large areas still contain heavy 
concentrations of rusting munitions, according to U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers Public Affairs Officer P.J. Spaul.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with Zapata Engineering, a 
company that specializes in searching out and destroying ordnance left 
from military testing found a significant amount of ordnance in the 
rather small area they are investigating, according to Senior UXO 
Supervisor, Brian Hodge.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2008/07/28/news/news2.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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