[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Campbell Island bombing range (NC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Island used as bombing range has no unexploded ordnance, inspection  
finds


By Ken Little
Wilmington Star News (NC)
May 23, 2011
An inspection of Campbell Island in the Cape Fear River by the U.S.  
Army Corps of Engineers didn’t turn up any unexploded ordnance on the  
former military bombing range or other environmental contamination.

The good news was presented last week to island stakeholders during a  
meeting held at the Corps of Engineers office in Wilmington.

Campbell Island is about nine miles south of Wilmington. It contains  
ample wetlands and is roughly 203 acres in size. The island was used  
as a bombing range for aviators training during World War II, said  
Ray Livermore, a Wilmington-based Corps of Engineers environmental  
engineer.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20110523/ARTICLES/ 
110529893/1177?Title=Island-used-as-bombing-range-has-no-unexploded- 
ordnance-inspection-finds

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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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