[CPEO-MEF] "A Pocono Country Place homeowner claims damage from [Tobyhanna, PA] artillery range cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel]

A Pocono Country Place homeowner claims damage from artillery range cleanup
U.S. Army veteran Thomas Williams is seeking a large compensation for claims that UXO detonation damaged his property and its value.

By Kevin Kunzmann
Pocono Record (PA)
October 31. 2015 


It was the seventh of 10 detonations Thomas and Toni Williams had recorded in a journal between April and August 2011.

Toni was sitting on the stairs of her A Pocono Country Place house in Tobyhanna when she said the artillery explosion began to shake the place. She felt the stairs sink from below her and heard the crack of glass windows and wall plaster as they moved, as if they were being pulled.

Downstairs, her stone fireplace hearthstone cracked and fell onto the wood floor, which was sinking in its corners. When the shaking stopped, the front door would not close, and gaps in the corners of the house appeared. “Everything is off," she wrote at the time.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20151031/news/151039869/101010/news

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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