[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: "Neighbors frustrated by pace of Camp Bonneville [WA] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Neighbors frustrated by pace of Camp Bonneville cleanup

Norman Helgason  
Battle Ground Reflector (WA)
December 15, 2025

Many neighbors left Wednesday’s Department of Ecology update worried that even after years of work, major parts of Camp Bonneville remain off limits. Ecology staff tried to explain why the former Army training ground, long seen as a future public park, still isn’t close to being opened to regular visitors.

The meeting at Hockinson Middle School was led by Michael Cronin, the state’s site manager and hydrogeologist, and Forrest Malone, the agency’s unexploded ordnance specialist. Both walked through what has been done and what must change before the county can move toward any public use.

Camp Bonneville’s story goes back decades. The Army trained on the 3,840-acre site for most of the 20th century, leaving behind ordnance, lead and other contamination. The Army closed the site in 1995 and transferred it to Clark County in 2006 under the idea that it would someday become a county park. Under county ownership, however, the site has continued to be used for law-enforcement training, and the Clark County Council rejected a proposed deal 2-3 on Tuesday, Aug. 19, to allow the FBI to continue training there, with some citing concerns that thousands of rounds of ammunition were stolen from the site last January. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is still allowed to use the site for training. The county has not developed a complete master plan for the site, which would set out what the land is actually intended to become.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.thereflector.com/stories/neighbors-frustrated-by-pace-of-camp-bonneville-cleanup,392786

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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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