[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Former Waikoloa Maneuver Area (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$70M contract awarded for Big Island ordnance removal

By Jason Armstrong
West Hawaii Today/Honolulu Advertiser
September 23, 2009

A Honolulu company will be paid $70 million to remove more unexploded 
artillery shells, grenades and other World War II ordnance from old 
training sites near Waimea on the Big Island.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced yesterday that it has hired 
Environet Inc. to perform the next cleanup phase at the former Waikoloa 
Maneuver Area.

Honolulu-based Environet will have five years to clear 3,950 acres of 
private and state-owned property, said Lacey Justinger, spokeswoman for 
the Corps' Honolulu Engineer District.

Some 2,500 acres belong to Parker Ranch and are located two miles south 
of the Waimea-Kohala Airport, she said. The state Department of Hawaiian 
Home Lands owns the 450-acre balance located about two miles north of 
the airport, she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090923/BREAKING01/90923043/+$70+million+contract+awarded+for+Big+Island+ordnance+removal+

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