[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Tobyhanna State Park (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Searching for Munitions at Tobyhanna S.P.

by Raegan Medgie
WNEP TV-16 News (Northeast Pennsylvania)
April 27, 2012


Park rangers are warning visitors to Tobyhanna State Park or to the  
nearby state game lands to call 911 if they see anything metal- 
looking while walking in the park.

Tobyhanna State Park and the state game lands to the west of the park  
used to be the site of an artillery range.

It hasn’t been used for that since the end of World War II, but there  
are still live artillery shells inside the park.

That’s why a special crew of people come back every year to find the  
shells and then detonate them.
Every spring for the past 15 years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  
has come to Tobyhanna State Park with metal detectors in hand.

...

For the entire story, see
http://wnep.com/2012/04/27/searching-for-munitions-at-tobyhanna-s-p/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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