[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Navy proposes munitions cleanup for Ostrich Bay, " WA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy proposes munitions cleanup for Ostrich Bay

by Julianne Stanford
Kitsap Sun (WA)
October 18, 2017 

The Navy has proposed a plan to clean up long-lost munitions and explosives hidden for almost 60 years underneath the sediment in Ostrich Bay near Jackson Park. 

The housing complex near Naval Hospital Bremertonis the site of the former Naval Ammunition Depot Puget Sound, where munitions were manufactured, stored and demilitarized from 1904 to 1959. The depot's records indicate munitions unintentionally fell into the water during loading and unloading ships at two piers in Ostrich Bay, only one of which still exists today.

The Navy estimates munitions such as bullets, shotgun shells, fuses, 20 mm projectiles, 40 mm projectiles, 5-inch projectiles and 14-inch projectiles fell into the water during transport. To date, more than 10,000 of these types of munitions have been discovered and removed from the proposed cleanup area, ranging from bullets to a single anti-submarine “Hedgehog” rocket.  

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/local/2017/10/17/navy-proposes-munitions-cleanup-ostrich-bay/763548001/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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