[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Lead at Marine Puuloa Range Training Facility (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Working Group Will Address Lead Contamination At Marine Shooting Range
The Puuloa Range Training Facility has been a source of growing concern. 

By Christina Jedra   
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
April 12, 2024


Hawaii lawmakers have ordered the formation of a new working group to discuss lead contamination in the air and water around a Marine Corps’ shooting range in Ewa Beach. 

House Resolution 18, adopted on Friday, calls for quarterly gathering of elected officials, subject matter experts and the military to conduct informational briefings related to contamination and remediation at the Puuloa Range Training Facility. The group is expected to release quarterly reports to the House and take action the group deems appropriate until June 30, 2025. 

The measure comes after testing by the Surfrider Foundation and Rep. Rose Martinez’s office found lead detections on the beach near the range and in fish and dust samples taken nearby. The Marine Corps took its own samples from the beachfront boundary of its property earlier this year but has not yet released the results.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/working-group-will-address-lead-contamination-at-marine-shooting-range/

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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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