2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:10:37 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Unexploded ordnance from ‘50s discovered on Fort Huachuca" (AZ)
 
Avoiding blasts from the past: Unexploded ordnance from ‘50s discovered on Fort Huachuca, will be removed

By Emily Ellis 
Sierra Vista Herald Review (AZ)
September 26, 2018


FORT HUACHUCA - A surveyor working on an motor pool project at Fort Huachuca’s Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) on Monday discovered several pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) from the 1950s, according to an email from the base Public Affairs Office.

The military police were notified, and EPG personnel were restricted from the area.

The ordnance disposal team at Davis-Monthan Air Force in Tucson was contacted about the devices, but declined to remove them due to their age, said the email. The Army Corps of Engineers is currently working to have a specialist remove the UXOs within the next several weeks.

In the meantime, the area behind the facilities on Irwin Street (west of Arizona Street), Arizona Street to Brainard Road, and Whitside Road is off-limits until further notice.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.myheraldreview.com/news/government/avoiding-blasts-from-the-past-unexploded-ordnance-from-s-discovered/article_a8eee60c-c179-11e8-9b50-7b4d98371319.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>
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