[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Quantico [VA} wary of its explosive past"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Quantico wary of its explosive past

By Julia LeDoux
Inside NOVA (VA)
June 22, 2012

The Munitions Response Program at Quantico Marine Corps base has been  
addressing human health, environmental and safety concerns related to  
military munitions at the installation's inactive military munitions  
ranges since 2005.

"If you've ever had live fire at any of your bases, they are required  
to identify those areas that were formally used as ranges," said  
Maria N. Hoidal, environmental restoration program manager for the  
base. "This [program] is proactive, not reactive. We're trying to do  
a good job at identifying those areas and clean them up."

...

Hoidal noted that Quantico has a rich military history and has been a  
training site since World War I. Before that, it was the site of  
several Confederate encampments during the Civil War, and munitions  
dating back to that conflict are still found aboard what is now the  
Marine base.


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2012/jun/22/quantico-wary-its- 
explosive-past-ar-2007500/

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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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