[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Tom Nevers area, Nantucket (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tom Nevers under Army Corps scrutiny for unexploded ordnance


By Jason Graziadei
Nantucket Island Inquirer (MA)
March 17, 2011

Remnants of Nantucket's military history continue to be unearthed  
around the island, as unexploded ordnance have been relatively-common  
discoveries in the areas formerly used for target practice by the  
U.S. Navy during and after World War II.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to take a keen interest in  
mitigating the risk to Nantucket residents, and is currently  
embarking on its latest inspection and ordnance-removal project in a  
large area of Tom Nevers.

The 2,896-acre site - roughly bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the  
south, Tom Nevers Road to the east, Nantucket Memorial Airport to the  
west and Milestone Road to the north - was used between 1943 and 1946  
as an air-to-ground missile range for the training of Navy pilots,  
and is one of many former military installations around the country  
under review by the Department of Defense's Munitions Response Site  
Prioritization Protocol.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ack.net/tomneversordnance031711.html

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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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