[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: "Plan for old Black Hills [SD] depot worries some residents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan for old Black Hills depot worries some residents

BY JAMES NORD
Associated Press
June 22, 2016

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is installing barbed-wire fence to close off part of a defunct military depot near Edgemont, but some area residents say the move will prove ineffective at stopping potential danger from lingering explosives and toxic contamination at the remote site.


IGLOO, S.D. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is installing barbed-wire fence to close off part of a defunct military depot near Edgemont, but some area residents say the move will prove ineffective at stopping potential danger from lingering explosives and toxic contamination at the remote site.

The agency hopes by the end of the year to extend a fence to fully enclose a 904-acre portion of the Black Hills Army Depot, citing potential explosive hazards. The nearly two-mile fence project comes after the Corps reviewed swaths of the roughly 21,100-acre depot, dubbed "Igloo," and decided to spend about $500,000 over 30 years on education efforts and to seal part off.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/article85963562.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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