[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Hawaii disposal completed

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Last of chemical rounds destroyed

Honolulu Advertiser
August 1, 2008

Army personnel in Hawai'i yesterday completed destruction of the largest 
concentration of unexploded, or "dud," chemical rounds ever found in the 
United States.

The destruction of 71 chemical munitions at Schofield Barracks began in 
April, but was halted for system maintenance in May after 65 were safely 
destroyed.

Two of the remaining six were destroyed Wednesday, the Army said in a 
news release, and the other four were exploded yesterday morning.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/NEWS08/808010339/1018/LOCALNEWSFRONT

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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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