[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "‘No Action’ Proposed for Kalaupapa Bombsite"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘No Action’ Proposed for Kalaupapa Bombsite

By Léo Azambuja,
Molokai Dispatch, HI
August 8, 2017 


From 1941 to 1946, the United States bombed an area measuring about 200 acres northeast of Kalaupapa peninsula. The latest proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an ongoing process to clear unexploded ordinance from the area is to pursue no further cleanup action in the land surrounding the actual bombing target.

Kalaupapa’s Makanalua Bombing Range is 937 acres. In the core of this area, 233 acres are designated as Target Area, where most of the bombs and artillery fell. The surrounding 704 acres are designated Remaining Lands.

“The [Remedial Investigation] recommended no further action for the Remaining Lands … which is the topic of the proposed plan for this evening,” said Army Corps Project Manager Lori Wong, during a public meeting at Mitchell Pauole Center on Aug. 2. “No items with an explosive hazard have ever been found in the boundaries of the Remaining Lands area.”


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For the entire article, see
https://themolokaidispatch.com/no-action-proposed-for-kalaupapa-bombsite/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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