[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Unexploded ordnance compels DPL to find another site for Tinian landfill" (CNMI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unexploded ordnance compels DPL to find another site for Tinian landfill

By Emmanuel T. Erediano
Marianas Variety (CNMI)
May 13, 2021

DUE to the presence of World War II unexploded ordnance or UXO, the Department of Public Lands is looking for an alternative site for the proposed Tinian landfill.

More than 10 years ago, a place called Pina, located southwest of Tinian, was identified as a potential site for the relocation of the landfill, which is currently at Puntan Diablo, an open dump that is now considered a health and environmental hazard.

On June 2, 2009, DPL designated 12 hectares of land in Pina for the construction of the new landfill and other facilities for solid waste management on Tinian.

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For the entire article, see
https://mvariety.com/news/unexploded-ordnance-compels-dpl-to-find-another-site-for-tinian-landfill/article_b1f00ebc-b2ed-11eb-abc2-3b2f1c45d78b.html

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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
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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