[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Explosive Beach Objects" in New England

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Explosive Beach Objects - Just Another Example Of Massachusetts' Charm


By Edgar B. Herwick III
WGBH (Boston, MA)
July 29, 2015

Speculation ran wild in the days following that Rhode Island beach  
explosion, and one of the early theories posed that it might have  
been an old military munition buried in the sand. But just how likely  
is it that a military ordnance would be found on a New England beach?

It’s fairly common, it turns out.

This time last year, a small crowd gathered at Marconi Beach in  
Wellfleet to watch from a distance as the state bomb squad detonated  
a 14 inch projectile found buried in the sand.

The unexploded ordnance - or UXO - was still live, despite the fact  
that it was some 70 years old. Sargent William Qualls, who heads the  
Massachusetts state bomb squad, explains that during World War II  
there were large-scale Naval exercises on the coast with shooting  
ranges on the islands; a mock German village was even built on the  
Cape to prepare soldiers for urban warfare. As you might imagine, the  
area was crawling with munitions. As it turns out - it still is.

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For the entire story, see
http://wgbhnews.org/post/explosive-beach-objects-just-another-example- 
massachusetts-charm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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