[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: "US Army to clean up World War II debris from Hamptons' [NY] training sites"

[Lenny Siegel]

US Army to clean up World War II debris from Hamptons’ training sites

By Isabel Vincent
New York Post
July 31, 2021

Long before the well-to-do rushed to the Hamptons for the summer beach season, the region served as a training ground for World War II troops, and the east end of Long Island is still littered with dangerous remnants.

Now the US Army is back in Westhampton and other nearby areas to clean up unexploded ordnances, groundwater and other hazardous debris left over from US airmen, sailors and soldiers who tested new weapons and practiced bombing runs in the region during the war.

In Westhampton, the Army Corps of Engineers is scouring nearly 4,300 acres of private and state land, searching forests and scrub for contaminants left mostly by airmen who used a local airport as a training ground between 1943 and 1944.

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For the entire article, see
https://nypost.com/2021/07/31/army-to-clean-world-war-ii-debris-at-hamptons-training-sites/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)