[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Camp Wallace, Kingsmill, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UPDATE: Army Corps seeks residents' OK to look for old munitions in 
Kingsmill

By Dan Parsons
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
October 14, 2009

JAMES CITY

Jim Smith, a Kingsmill resident, has a shoe box full of ammunition in 
his garage.

But the small-arms rounds didn't come from a sporting-goods store or a 
gun show. Smith found them lying around on his property in the Spencer's 
Grant subdivision, one of four that used to be part of a former Army 
training camp.

"I was throwing them away, so there's probably a couple hundred more of 
these in the local dump," he told representatives of the Army Corps of 
Engineers on Tuesday during an informational meeting for Kingsmill 
residents concerned about old munitions on their property.

Camp Wallace, built in 1918 as a coastal artillery training facility, 
was in continuous use by the Department of Defense through World War II, 
Korea and Vietnam. During that time, the area was used for combat 
simulations, and the thousands of troops that trained there left some 
ammunition behind.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_kmillammo_1015oct15,0,5654559.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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