[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Yigo bomb disposal site, Guam

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps seeks to investigate former Yigo bomb disposal site but property access still in the works

By Joe Taitano II 
Pacific Daily News (GU)
April 17, 2024

About 842 acres of land near a former bomb disposal site in Yigo are being eyed for investigation by April 2025 but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still seeking property owners’ permission to investigate their land for “contamination.”

Army Corps officials on Tuesday answered questions about the effort, and helped residents fill out forms, part of a two-day outreach event held at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Yigo.

Overlooking the pristine Anao cliffline just south of the back gate to Andersen Air Force Base, the Lupog area of Yigo was used by the Army as a bomb disposal site after U.S. forces recaptured Guam from Japan in 1944.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.guampdn.com/news/army-corps-seeks-to-investigate-former-yigo-bomb-disposal-site-but-property-access-still-in/article_23274a4e-fbcc-11ee-b919-1386d35c0278.html

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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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