[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Bombs found in Gaston County (NC) woods

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Gaston search turns up explosive bits of history

By David Perlmutt and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Charlotte Observer (NC)
October 25, 2011

RANLO -  Police found two more military bombs in Gaston County woods  
on Monday, possibly training devices left over from a World War II- 
era manufacturing plant in this small town 20 miles west of Charlotte.

Searchers from several law enforcement agencies conducted an  
extensive grid search for the ordnance on Monday after a similar bomb  
was found on Friday.

That bomb was found closer to people's homes - a wooded area off East  
Long Avenue, Ranlo Police Chief Tim Anderson said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/24/2720062/gaston-search- 
turns-up-explosive.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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