[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: "Camp Bonneville [WA] cleanup effort nears completion"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Bonneville cleanup effort nears completion
Nearly 500 acres of the site will remain fenced off permanently due to the danger of unexploded munitions

by Chris Brown
Clark County Today (WA)
October 14, 2020


CLARK COUNTY - The massive, complicated, and immensely expensive cleanup of Camp Bonneville is nearly at an end.

Between 1910 and 1995, the 3,804-acre site in east Clark County was used as a military barracks for the US Army, including live fire training which left hundreds of unexploded munitions behind, as well as lead ammunition which contaminated the groundwater.

In 2012, the county took over management of the cleanup effort, funded by the Army and overseen by the U.S. Department of Ecology.

Cleanup was initially estimated to cost just $23 million. By the time it wraps up later this year, the military estimates they will have spent over $72 million.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/camp-bonneville-cleanup-effort-nears-completion/

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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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