[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, BIOTA: "Military responds to munition found in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, " AK

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military responds to munition found in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge 

By Theo Greenly
KUCB Aleutians Radio (AK)
November 8, 2023

A group of explosives experts from Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson traveled to Cold Bay in the Eastern Aleutians Oct. 30 in response to a local hunter’s report of what appeared to be a large unexploded artillery munition. The ordnance was found in the middle of the federally protected Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a key habitat for many migratory birds and other wildlife.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tyrone Powell, the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team leader for the mission, confirmed the hunter did find an unexploded military round.

“It's big artillery,” Powell said. “When we pulled it out of the ground, it weighed probably six or 700 pounds. It took four of us to pull it out.”

The shell was approximately 12 inches in diameter and four feet long. Powell said that particular type of round was first manufactured in 1943, during WWII but could have been built anytime up to the 1990s.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.kucb.org/regional/2023-11-08/military-responds-to-munition-found-in-izembek-national-wildlife-refuge

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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