[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Ford Ord (CA) prescribed burn

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army to burn Fort Ord lands again today
Breeze puts a stop to munitions clearance Tuesday

by Sunita Vijayan
Salinas Californian
October 7, 2009

The U.S. Army may pick up today where it left off Tuesday morning after 
unexpected shifting winds halted controlled burns on former Fort Ord lands.

The Army is burning off brush that is helping to conceal old munitions 
from the fort's days as a military training base. Tuesday's fire lasted 
about an hour and a half before Army officials called it off at 11:15 a.m.

"There's too much of an offshore breeze pushing the [smoke] column 
toward Monterey," said Lyle Shurtleff, an environmental scientist and 
manager of the military-munitions response program at Fort Ord. "The 
weather folks say we may have another burn window" today.

The U.S. Army Fort Ord Base Realignment and Closure Office said Monday 
it planned to burn two areas, one of 257 acres and the other of 196 
acres, near Eucalyptus and Orion roads, about two miles east of Seaside.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20091007/NEWS01/910070307

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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