[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Unexploded danger lies beneath sand, waters of off-limits Browns Island"(NC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unexploded danger lies beneath sand, waters of off-limits Browns Island

by Cpl. Breanna Weisenberger, MCB Camp Lejeune 
Camp Lejeune Globe
May 24, 2018 

In between Onslow Beach and Hammocks Beach State Park is Browns Island, one of three major Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune impact areas that have existed since the base’s establishment in 1941.

This impact area has been in use more than 50 years for military training including naval gunnery practice and live fire from mortars, machine guns, rockets and artillery.

“The Browns’ Island Policy is (there) to inform the public about the dangers that lay underneath the sand and waters of this inviting beach,” said Nicholas Klaus, deputy director, range control branch and range control officer. “We’ve used rounds that vary from 9mm up to 500lbs. The problem is that they can be fired out of a weapon, but in some cases dud or fail to explode.”

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For the entire release, see
http://www.camplejeuneglobe.com/news/unexploded-danger-lies-beneath-sand-waters-of-off-limits-browns/article_2a038d2e-5eba-11e8-bfbc-cfb2015abe48.html

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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
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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