[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Navy nears completion of cleanup process for contaminated sites at Fort Worth [TX] base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy nears completion of cleanup process for contaminated sites at Fort Worth base


by Haley Samsel and Izzy Acheson
Fort Worth Report (TX)
January 25, 2023

Nearly a decade ago, staff at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth realized they had a problem. 

Long before the Navy took over operations, the site was known as Carswell Air Force Base — a hub for training pilots and supporting heavy bombers during the Cold War. While the Air Force closed the base in 1994, environmental cleanups and oversight didn’t become the Navy’s responsibility until 20 years later.

Soon after assuming environmental duties, Navy staff found the Air Force had not yet conducted an inventory of what the Department of Defense calls “military munitions/unexploded ordnance” sites on the base. Those sites can range from former shooting ranges to fields containing partially detonated explosives used during training activities. 

Through a 2015 assessment, the Navy discovered three contaminated sites across the base in northwest Fort Worth, according to Bob Fisher, the environmental restoration branch head for the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command. The contaminated sites comprise a former skeet range; a former small arms pistol range; and a former machine gun range and rifle range located next to each other.

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For the entire article, see
https://fortworthreport.org/2023/01/25/navy-nears-completion-of-cleanup-process-for-contaminated-sites-at-fort-worth-base/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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