[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Allegheny Arsenal (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pittsburgh area construction site yields 700 pieces of ordnance 

by Chris Eger
Guns.com
August 10, 2017

Ongoing construction this year in Lawrenceville near the location of the historic Allegheny Arsenal has kept Army explosive ordnance disposal teams busy.

Live Civil War-era cannonballs have been popping up since March resulting in a response at first the Pittsburgh Police bomb squad, then a more lingering military presence.

Elements of the 192nd Ordnance Company from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and the 55th Ordnance Company from Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, transported some 700 items from the construction site to Fort Indiantown Gap, a Pennsylvania National Guard base with a live-fire range and facilities for demolition.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guns.com/2017/08/10/pittsburgh-area-construction-site-yields-700-pieces-of-ordnance-photos/

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