[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Colorado hikers beware: Live military munitions can be found on some public lands"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Colorado hikers beware: Live military munitions can be found on some  
public lands

By Kareem Maddox
Colorado Public Radio
March 30, 2015

Camp Hale, in between Leadville and Minturn, still contains some  
explosive remnants of its time as a World War II training ground.  
U.S. soldiers, preparing for deployment to the Italian Alps,  
practiced using bullets, mortar shells, and grenades to test their  
performance at high altitude.

Today, some of those munitions remain in the rugged mountain terrain,  
and may be still unexploded, says Ken Vogler of the state's Hazardous  
Materials and Waste Management Division. His munitions response team  
is responsible for the cleanup effort at the camp, which has been  
ongoing for more than five years. He says that it could last another  
decade.

The area being investigated is about 95,000 acres of public land.  
Though the chance that any one person comes across a dangerous item  
is small, the number of people visiting the area is growing

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-hikers-beware-live-military- 
munitions-can-be-found-some-public-lands

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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
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