[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Kirtland Air Force Base (NM) bombing range

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ordnance Cleanup Slow  	

by Lee Ross
East Mountain Telegraph
September 3, 2009

The military withdrawal area on Kirtland Airforce Base won't be cleared 
of unexploded ordnance any time soon.

That's according to a presentation by Bo Bohannon, deputy base engineer, 
one of several people who gave a presentation at a meeting at Los 
Vecinos Community Center on Aug. 27.

The meeting centered around an explanation of why firefighting efforts 
by the U. S. Forest Service and other agencies were hampered recently.

The Main Fire, which started in late July, burned nearly 300 acres and 
is now largely extinguished, was within the boundaries of a roughly 
20,000-acre former bombing range that was withdrawn from public use more 
than 50 years ago because it is littered with unexploded ordnance. 
Because of that danger, no one is allowed into the area, including 
firefighters.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.emtelegraph.com/index.php/news/1860-Ordnance-Cleanup-Slow.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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