[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Puuloa [HI] Shooting Ranges To Be Moved Away From Shoreline"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Puuloa Shooting Ranges To Be Moved Away From Shoreline
Community members have expressed concerns about beach erosion and lead contamination. 

By Christina Jedra     
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
February 28, 2023
 
   
The U.S. Marine Corps said on Monday that four short-distance firing ranges at its Pu’uloa Range Training Facility will be moved inland to address concerns about erosion and potential lead contamination. 

The Ewa Beach facility has been a source of community consternation since 2019 after the Marines announced plans to drive a sheet pile retaining wall 20 feet deep into the bedrock. Such seawalls act as a temporary shield for individual properties b

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/puuloa-shooting-ranges-to-be-moved-away-from-shoreline/

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