[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Waikoloa Maneuver Area (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Despite decades-long cleanup, threat of unexploded ordnance on Hawaii Island remains high

By Allyson Blair
Hawaii News Now
March 31, 2023 

WAIKOLOA - Eighty years after the military battered parts of Hawaii Island with grenades, mortars, and bombs, officials estimate thousands of unexploded ordnances remain scattered throughout several West Hawaii Island communities ― a reality that impacts everything from daily life to future planning.

Over the years, munitions have been discovered in neighborhoods, hidden on pastureland, and even in the garden at Waimea Middle School.

And the danger is real: Since the closure of a massive World War II training camp known as the Waikoloa Maneuver Area in 1945, four people have been killed after coming across old military explosives. Others have been hurt.

Meanwhile, with the hazard still there, cleanup efforts have dragged on for decades.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/03/31/despite-decades-long-cleanup-threat-unexploded-ordnance-hawaii-island-remains-high/

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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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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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