[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: Unexploded Ordnance at Mare Island (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Does death still lurk in Mare Island soil?

By Jessica A. York
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
April 3, 2011



Nearly 10 years ago, the Navy drew to a close years of work removing  
buried munitions -- some unexploded and therefore highly dangerous --  
from the southern-most portion of Mare Island.

In March, the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) office  
announced that contractors will be unearthing thousands of newly  
detected metallic "anomalies" that could be anything: a spoon, maybe  
a railroad spike.

Or even unexploded ordnance.

The new development comes nearly 10 years after a Times-Herald  
investigation, published in May 2001, that unveiled serious  
allegations of mismanaged cleanup and remaining safety concerns.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_17763210

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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