[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Ft. Sheridan (IL) ordnance in Lake Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Highwood's beach no has for place for swimmers
Residents are blocked from the water by concerns over old unexploded 
bombs from Ft. Sheridan

By Jeff Long
Chicago Tribune
August 21, 2009

Steve Draska doesn't believe there are unexploded bombs along the Lake 
Michigan shoreline of his community in Highwood, once home to the 
bustling Ft. Sheridan Army base.

But officials say uncertainty is why they don't want him or anyone else 
swimming from a beautiful stretch of beach now owned by the Lake County 
Forest Preserve District. Draska -- who loves to swim, boat, and snorkel 
-- said he feels like Moses, kept from the Promised Land.

His pain is doubled by an even longer section of lakefront to the south 
of the forest preserve, controlled by the conservation organization 
Openlands. Together, the two lengths of pristine lakefront stretch for 2 
miles, with no swimming allowed.

"They're doing some good things," Draska said, acknowledging the 
preservation and restoration projects under way on the sites, "but I 
can't understand why we can't use the lake. Why can't they take a 
section and say, 'Hey, let's let people enjoy the lake?'

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-highwood-beaches-north-zone-aug21,0,3843932.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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