[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Lejeune (NC) cleaning up a beach training area.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base’s Environmental Restoration Program works to clean up another former range

by Charity Delaney, Environmental Engineer 
Camp Lejeune Globe (NC)
June 7, 2019 

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune's Environmental Restoration Program has been working since the 1990s to conduct environmental investigations and cleanup, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

These agencies work together to come up with long-term, cost-effective clean up strategies with the goal of returning property to reusable land. Short- and long-term goals are always to protect human health and the environment, whether that be through various cleanup technologies and/or restricting land use. This includes prohibitions on digging or drinking groundwater.

Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) Site UXO-06 is a former training area for fortified beach assault used from 1953 to 1977. As a result of these activities, potential explosive hazards from remaining munitions are present and cleanup activities are currently being conducted. The site is located south of McHugh Boulevard, west of Sneads Ferry Road, and bounded by Cowhead Creek to the south.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.camplejeuneglobe.com/news/base-s-environmental-restoration-program-works-to-clean-up-another/article_cf473b70-87cf-11e9-b401-e375583793d4.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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