[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Investigating former Southwestern Proving Grounds (AR)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Digging up the past at proving grounds

By Stephanie Harris-Smith
Hope Star (AR)
October 29, 2009

Second of two parts.

Hope, Ark. - With the modern technology used by Zapata Engineering and 
the use of geophysical (DGM) mapping, locating possibly dangerous items 
from the World War II Southwestern Proving Ground and outside the 
proving grounds in what was known as the “buffer” zone is possible in a 
more in depth way than in previous studies.

Over the last two years a group of 14 people, Zapata personnel, 
contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted an 
investigation on two sections of the proving grounds in order to see 
what types of densities and hazards are still in the area, according to 
Zapata Project Manager Larry Hudgins.

Hudgins along with Brian Hodge, senior UXO supervisor, reported the 
results of the investigations to the public at a SW Proving Ground 
Restoration Advisory Board meeting earlier this week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hopestar.com/news/x1717114520/Digging-up-the-past-at-proving-grounds

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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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