[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIONAL GUARD: "Complaint filed over unexploded ordnance in North Valley" (MT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Complaint filed over unexploded ordnance in North Valley

By SANJAY TALWANI
Helena Independent Record (MT)
June 16, 2013

In the late 1940s and 1950s, the Montana Army National Guard fired  
thousands of projectiles into rangeland in the north Helena Valley,  
part of America’s Cold War military preparation.

And since 1997, the Guard, through contractors, has removed thousands  
of items from the area, including about 160 of the potentially  
dangerous unexploded ordnances (UXOs). The Montana Department of  
Military Affairs has made various efforts, from mailers to open  
houses to school presentations and county commission meetings, to let  
the public know about UXOs and other items, their dangers, and ways  
to avoid them.

But a longtime landowner in the area says the government hasn’t done  
enough. Chevalier Ranch Co., is arguing in court that attorneys for  
the state killed its own public outreach plan in the spring 2007 for  
fear of stoking public fears and liability for the government and has  
otherwise concealed facts and analysis about the UXOs from the public.

...

For the entire article, see
http://helenair.com/news/local/spooky-nuisance/article_d85ea67c- 
d64a-11e2-9c6b-0019bb2963f4.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>
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