[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Plum Tree Island clearance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plum Tree Island yields fewer munitions than expected

By Jon Cawley
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
March 11, 2009

POQUOSON

A two-month sweep of Plum Tree Island to locate military ordnance left 
over from the island's long-ago days as a target range has yielded fewer 
explosives than originally expected.

At a Tuesday morning meeting, about 15 staffers from various local, 
state and federal agencies met at Poquoson City Hall to discuss progress 
on the multiyear Army Corps of Engineers project to clear the island of 
old munitions. Private contractor Shaw Environmental Inc. is winding 
down this year's work on the island in advance of the arrival of 
migratory shore birds for nesting season.

Alex Smith, Shaw Environmental's project coordinator, said the most 
common discovery, by far, has been that of jet-assisted take-off 
bottles, devices used to give an extra boost to overloaded aircraft or 
those taking off from short runways. More than 200 of the devices have 
been found in sweeps of shoreline areas, Smith said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_plumtree_0311mar11,0,7238885.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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