[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, PRESERVATION: Waikane Valley, O'ahu (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military studies Waikane Valley bomb cleanup
A Windward Oahu area littered with old munitions is being looked at  
by both the Marines and the Army

By William Cole
Honolulu Star Advertiser
June 19, 2011

Up a rutted road in jungly Waikane Valley, past the old Ka Mauna 'o  
'Oliveta Church, through a locked gate and beyond a security fence is  
the former Kamaka family farm, the now-defunct military training  
range that replaced it, and the long-held hope -- going on decades  
now -- that the land can be returned to the agricultural and cultural  
place it used to be.

Waikane Valley is one of dozens of former military training sites in  
Hawaii undergoing the slow, arduous and sometimes painful process  
that goes along with demilitarization.

Among those many sites, Waikane is considered by some to be a special  
place, and there's been momentum in recent years to clean up the  
munitions that litter it.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/ 
20110619_Military_studies_Waikane_Valley_bomb_cleanup.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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