[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Unexploded munitions cleared on some of Waimea [HI] homestead lands, paving way for new homes"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unexploded munitions cleared on some of Waimea homestead lands, paving way for new homes

Big Island Now (HI)
June 4, 2023 

During World War II, about 50,000 American troops conducted live-fire training on Hawai‘i Island in preparation for being sent to some of the most hard-fought battles in the Pacific Theatre, including Saipan, Iwo Jima and Midway Atoll.

Since 2002, the corps has conducted 26 cleanups, removing approximately 2,700 munitions items and 120 tons of munitions debris from 30,000 of the 100,220 acres in South Kohala that comprise the Waikōloa Maneuver Area.

But nearly 80 years since troops left the maneuver area, the cleanup still is not complete of the left behind, unexploded munitions — mortars, projectiles, hand grenades, rockets, land mines and Japanese ordinances.

As a result, Hawaiian families have been waiting years for the land to be safe enough to start building or buying on Hawaiian Homestead Lands.

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For the entire article, see
https://bigislandnow.com/2023/06/04/unexploded-munitions-cleared-on-some-of-waimea-homestead-lands-paving-way-for-new-homes/

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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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