[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: Lockbourne Air Force Base (OH) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Could There Be Live Ammo In A Local Landfill?

By Mike Bowersock
NBC4 TV-News (Columbus, OH)
May 5, 2011

Residents in the Village of Lockbourne, near Rickenbacker Airport,  
have been concerned for several years that a landfill at the edge of  
the former Lockbourne Air Force Base is contaminated with who knows  
what from who knows when.

The belief is that chemicals and possibly explosives are buried in  
the 135 acres near the current airport and near homes.

It was closed in 1979, but operated for nearly 40 years as the main  
dump of the air base.

...

The corps said it is not 100 percent certain that explosives are not  
in the dump.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/may/05/7/could-there-be-live-ammo- 
local-landfill-ar-478151/

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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
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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