[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Response at former Umatilla Army Ammunition Depot (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Walking the line: USACE team ensures safe terrain for future soldiers

By Makenzie Leonard
U.S. Army
January 5, 2026

HERMISTON, Ore. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Military Munition Response Program is working to clear a 416-acre swath of property for the Oregon National Guard at the former Umatilla Army Ammunition Depot that had been identified in 2023 as potentially containing unexploded ordnance derived from the destruction of stockpiled munitions at the adjacent demolition range. 

During this timeframe Ordnance & Explosives Safety Specialist Randy Schneider worked with Mr. Jim Arnold from the Oregon Military Department to calculate the potential distance that munitions may have been ejected from a large-scale demolition event and established an “Eastern Buffer Zone” that would require further investigation to determine the probability of encountering munitions.

A USACE Omaha District team led by Military Munitions Design Center Chief Jason Blair and Ordnance and Explosives Safety Specialist Andrew Goldman conducted a visual surface inspection of the site the week of Nov. 17.
“The hope is that with this inspection, we can give the green light for the Oregon National Guard so that they can further develop this property to better support the war fighter as part of the Rees Training Center,” Blair said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.army.mil/article-amp/289860/walking_the_line_usace_team_ensures_safe_terrain_for_future_soldiers

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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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