[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS/FORMER SITES: Camp Perry (Erie Army Depot), OH

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unexploded Ordnance: Lake Erie shoreline site of long-term munitions study

By James Proffitt
Great Lakes Now/Detroit Public Television
January 7, 2021

In 1991, a Lake Michigan fishing vessel crew netted an object they later deposited on a beach in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was subsequently identified as a fully-armed Sidewinder missile. While this is an extreme example of unexploded ordnance (UXO) pollution, it highlights the issue of old military munitions in the Great Lakes.

American defense operations have utilized thousands of sites for manufacturing, testing, training and disposing of weapons and munitions over the centuries. The Great Lakes were mostly spared, with the government opting for the eastern and western coastal regions instead.

Even so, there are more than a dozen sites in the lakes and on its shores that were historically used.

One Formerly Used Defense Site on western Lake Erie is home to a project which focuses on locating and mapping old military munitions – including some that could still be live. The results of the study will be used in planning future remediation of UXO sites which could pose a hazard to the public not just on Lake Erie, but at FUDS everywhere UXO are found in marine environments.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/unexploded-ordnance-lake-erie-shoreline-site-munitions-study/

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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