[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Editorial: "Resume the Cleanup" at Camp Bonneville (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Our View: Resume the Cleanup

Camp Bonneville offers great potential; county must continue to press  
Army officials


The Columbian (WA)
April 28, 2011

Among the cats to be herded in the Camp Bonneville cleanup project  
are the U.S. Army, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the  
state Department of Ecology and parks, environmental and legal  
officials with Clark County. Good luck getting that multi- 
jurisdictional bunch moving in the same direction.

But county officials have not given up on trying to turn the 3,840- 
acre former artillery range into a park, and we say good for them.  
Such a conversion makes perfect sense, and the complexity of the  
challenge only seems to make county folks more determined.

It’s been almost a year since any cleanup progress has been noted at  
the site in east county, but as a recent Columbian story noted,  
officials from the county and the Army are still talking about how to  
get it done. We hope they stay focused on the astoundingly simple  
concept that must guide this process: The Army contaminated Camp  
Bonneville, and the Army must clean it up. For eight decades, the  
artillery range was pounded with assorted ordnance, much of it now  
beneath the surface and an undetermined amount unexploded. All of it  
must be removed before any public use can be allowed.


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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/apr/28/in-our-view-resume-the- 
cleanup/

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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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