[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Former Camp Fannin (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps of Engineers to Look for Buried Munitions at Camp Fannin

By COSHANDRA DILLARD
Tyler Morning Telegraph (TX)
February 9, 2009

Field work is scheduled to begin in March to investigate potential 
explosive hazards and munitions on privately owned land near the former 
Camp Fannin site.

Camp Fannin was an infantry training center from 1943-46 that sprawled 
over 14,000 acres near Winona. It was turned over to private landowners 
when the camp was deemed an excess after the war, which left unexploded 
ordnance, or weapons, across the former camp.

Once closed, there was limited technology to detect ordnance that may be 
hidden in the ground, said Fred Tolen, a Zapata Inc. project manager.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090209/NEWS01/902080374

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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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