[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Over 2K WWII-era UXOs blown up" on Marpi, Northern Marianas

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Over 2K WWII-era UXOs blown up

By Kimberly B. Esmores
Saipan Tribune (Northern Marianas)
March 15, 2022

The U.S Department of Defense, through its contracting company, HydroGeoLogic, Inc., collected over 2,000 unexploded ordnances, or UXOs, around the HOPE Recovery Center in the last four months, culminating in a huge, one-time disposal blast yesterday in Marpi. 

According to Lt. Col. Eric Marshall, commander of the Honolulu District Corps of Engineers, the amount of UXOs found at the HOPE Recovery Center was a significant find for the size of the real estate.

“Within four months, we have found over 2,000 pieces of what we call MEC, or Munitions or Explosives of Concern. Not all that is necessarily explosive, but it’s something that could be unsafe for the public. That is a significant find across 14 acres of land,” he said. 

Yesterday, HydroGeoLogic, in collaboration with the DoD, detonated the over 2,000 UXOs at the Marpi Blow Pit, a site in Marpi where many of the UXOs found in the CNMI are disposed of.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/over-2k-wwii-era-uxos-blown-up/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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