[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: "As work continues at Camp Bonneville [WA], residents get chance to weigh in on plan"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Our View: Checking up on Cleanup
As work continues at Camp Bonneville, residents get chance to weigh in on plan

The Columbian (WA) 
December 31, 2018

As the cleanup continues at Camp Bonneville, the public has another opportunity to weigh in on what’s happening, this time on a proposed change in the cleanup action plan.

As a quick refresher, Camp Bonneville, a 3,840-acre property in eastern Clark County, was used by the U.S. military for live-fire exercises to train troops from 1909-95. That left behind explosives, an enormous number of unexploded ordnance, munitions debris, lead contamination and explosive-related contamination of groundwater.

As of 2016, $23 million had been budgeted for cleanup, but that number was expected to climb. Contractors have said that the Army greatly underestimated the scope of the contamination from both lead and unexploded ordnance. The county, Army and state Department of Ecology are working together to clean the site so a portion of it will be available for public use sometime in the future.

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For the entire article,e see
https://www.columbian.com/news/2018/dec/31/in-our-view-checking-up-on-cleanup/

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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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