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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Army completes unexploded ordnance search off Makua Beach, " HI
 
Army completes unexploded ordnance search off Makua Beach

Hawaii News Now
May 23 2018

MAKUA BEACH, OAHU - The Army has completed its search for unexploded ordnance in the waters off Makua Beach.

The project was the result of a two-year effort to secure funding from the Department of Defense to begin the search after a local diver found an unexploded ordnance in 2016. 

The funds from the DOD allowed contracted divers to search a 22-acre offshore area near where the 2016 ordnance was found. No ordnances were found during this search.

The divers, who were experts in underwater munitions, worked in three-person teams using metal detectors and underwater GPS equipment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38264759/us-army-completes-ordnance-search-off-of-makua-beach

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
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