[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Contractor quits Camp Bonneville (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Munitions contractor quits Camp Bonneville
Cleanup of potential park site is stalled over cost disputes

By Erik Robinson
The Columbian (WA)
December 14, 2009


For more than a year, the Army and a county-hired contractor have been 
feuding over who's responsible for cost overruns in the 
multimillion-dollar cleanup of a former artillery range envisioned as a 
future county park.

Now, the subcontractor hired to remove unexploded ordnance has pulled 
out of Camp Bonneville.

Texas-based Pika International pulled up stakes late last month. Pika 
and its subsidiary, MKM Engineers, were the lead subcontractors 
overseeing the removal of munitions. The president of the nonprofit 
organization heading the cleanup - Bonneville Conservation Restoration 
and Renewal Team - blamed the Army for failing to provide enough money.

"'We can't afford to bankroll the Army,' I think was their actual 
quote," said Mike Gage, president of BCRRT.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2009/dec/14/munitions-contractor-quits-camp-bonneville/

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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
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