[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Bonneville (WA) dispute

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army given ultimatum on Camp Bonneville cleanup

County says pay for it, or no contract renewal


By Stephanie Rice
Columbian (WA)
June 1, 2011
Clark County officials have given the Army a July 14 deadline to  
commit to continue paying for the extensive cleanup of Camp Bonneville.

Otherwise, the county will not renew a contract with the Army to  
oversee the cleanup, Commissioner Marc Boldt said Wednesday, and  
plans to use the property as a regional park may be put off  
indefinitely.

Boldt told Commissioners Tom Mielke and Steve Stuart that  
negotiations with the Army, which used the 3,840-acre site in east  
county as an artillery range and training area from 1909 to 1995,  
have stalled.

The multimillion-dollar cleanup, overseen by the state Department of  
Ecology, has crawled along and been marked by cost overruns and  
funding disputes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/jun/01/its-not-our-responsibility- 
to-clean-up-their-mess/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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