[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Stirling Bomb Target, Broward County, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military inspection targets old bombing site in Davie
Military checks out WW II training area to verify its safety

By Macollvie Jean-François
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (CA)
October 7, 2008

DAVIE

Before southwestern Broward County turned into suburbs with all the 
trappings of development, World War II Navy aviators flew overhead, 
practicing on targets before going off to drop bombs on the enemy.

More than 60 years later, the military is once again eyeing former 
training sites around the county, to ensure all potentially harmful 
remnants of the weapons are buried or gone.

These days, the Army Corps of Engineers is inspecting the former 
Stirling Bomb Target near Vista View Park, just north of Griffin Road 
and west of Southwest 142nd Street. Officials ran an ad asking residents 
to call with information about any weapon fragments they have found.

"There's nothing there we could find," project manager Charles Fales 
said last month. "Were there to be any of them there — and again, we 
didn't find any - they might potentially hurt somebody."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbbomb1007sboct07,0,4775255.story

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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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