[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: "Army Corps to search for munitions at Tisbury Great Pond" (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps to search for munitions at Tisbury Great Pond
The Army Corps will undertake a five-year ordnance-removal project.

By Edie Prescott 
Martha's Vineyard Times (MA)
April 12, 2017

Selectmen gave the Army Corps of Engineers the right to enter two parcels that it owns near Tisbury Great Pond for a five-year period to search for unexploded munitions, possible holdovers from training on the Island during World War II. The permission was granted during the board of selectmen’s meeting on Tuesday, April 5.

According to a document provided by the town, the Army Corps will survey, locate, and remove unexploded ordnance at the site. “The survey and collection of munitions and UXO most likely would be conducted on the upland areas, beach, dunes, shoreline areas on both land and in the water, as well as the inland water ponds of Tisbury Great Pond and Long Cove Pond, and the ocean areas up to 600 feet offshore,” the document states.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mvtimes.com/2017/04/12/army-corps-search-munitions-tisbury-great-pond/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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