[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITE: Discarded Military Munitions beneath Seattle's (WA) Pier 91

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Seattle cruise season to start after underwater ammo cleanup

by SUSANNAH FRAME
KING 5 TV-News (Seattle, WA)
April 8, 2011


SEATTLE – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just finished a  
massive, multi-million dollar cleanup operation of discarded World  
War II-era munitions underneath Pier 91, the high traffic cruise ship  
terminal in Seattle.

Specially trained divers from across the country found 11 discarded  
military munitions (DMM) and more than 200 other military munitions- 
related items. DMM is described as unfired military munitions, still  
capable of functioning, that were most likely dropped overboard or  
inappropriately discarded in the water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle-cruise-season-underwater- 
ammo-119490919.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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