[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Campground closed at Bellows Air Force Station (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Citing unexploded munitions risk, military to temporarily close popular beach campsite

By Allyson Blair
Hawaii News Now
April 26, 2023 

HONOLULU - The military announced it will temporarily close a popular campground this summer after a World War II-era bomb was discovered at a campsite at Bellows Air Force Station.

HNN Investigates confirmed it’s the first of two closures planned for the Menehune Campground.

In the meantime, visitors are being warned any kind of digging could be deadly. Signs have been posted.

“They say no ground disturbing activities,” said Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager Chelsea Wallis.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/04/27/popular-beach-campsite-close-exhaustive-unexploded-munitions-review-after-25-pound-bomb-is-found/

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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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