[CPEO-MEF] Former practice range, Patterson, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report largely clears bomb testing site

by Amanda Matthews
Patterson Irrigator (CA)
March 18, 2010

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspection of the surface soil at a 
former bombing practice field used by the military in the 1940s has 
revealed that debris from explosions there still exist, but that the 
risk of them hurting someone is very low.

...

The Patterson site was used for only a few years after the Crows Landing 
Naval Auxiliary Air Station bought it for dive-bombing target practice 
in 1943. Soon enough, the U.S. Navy could see that the grassy hills, 
which became dry tinder in summer, created a fire hazard - not the best 
place to set off ammunitions explosions.

After the site's closure in 1946, the Navy dug a pit and buried the 
bombing debris that had been left behind.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pattersonirrigator.com/view/full_story/6762197/article-Report-largely-clears-bomb-testing-site?instance=home_news_second_lead_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
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