[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Navy responds promptly about Nomans" Land Island, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy responds promptly about Nomans

By Rich Saltzberg
Martha’s Vineyard Times
October 2, 2020

The Navy recently answered questions first posed by The Times at a Sept. 29 hearing on Nomans Land. Those questions went unanswered at the time. Initially a Navy official said the questions would not be answered until the Navy has issued a determination on what degree of munitions cleanup, if any, it will do on Nomans Land. The Navy has cleared thousands of munitions from the island, which was a target range for decades. 

David Barney, a Navy official, answered the questions through an email sent by a naval spokesman. 

 The first set of questions posed by The Times were, “Were cluster munitions dropped on the island? Was depleted uranium ammunition fired on the island? Was napalm dropped on the island?”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mvtimes.com/2020/10/02/navy-responds-promptly-nomans/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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