[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Southern Shores Training Site, NC

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

“Outer Banks Strange”: Are unexploded bombs a threat to environmental safety?

By Arabella Saunders 
NC Policy Watch
April 12, 2022

SOUTHERN SHORES, NC – Standing before the town council in early March, Southern Shores Town Manager Cliff Ogburn began yet another presentation on the bombs potentially buried around town.

It was strange, but it was “Outer Banks Strange.” Strange like side-of-the-highway historical markers recounting German submarines sinking U.S. ships off the coast. Strange like commercial fisherman trawling for scallops and netting a live torpedo instead. Strange like locals using sand-filled practice bombs as doorstops.

When you live on a 200-mile stretch of barrier islands that was sparsely populated during World War II – and therefore perfect for military target practice – a lot of things are strange, and a lot of strange things wash up, get buried, get discovered.

The bombs Ogburn referred to at the meeting were left over from the Southern Shores Training Site, 3,000-acre area of land and sea used as a bombing, strafing and rocket target range by the Navy from the early 1940s to 1945.

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For the entire article, see
https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/04/12/outer-banks-strange-are-unexploded-bombs-a-threat-to-environmental-safety/

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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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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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