[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Suffolk County (Westhampton) Bombing and Gunnery Range (NY)

[Lenny Siegel]

Old military training grounds to be searched for munitions

By Vera Chinese
Long Island Newsday (NY)
March 15, 2021 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin an investigation of nearly 4,300 acres in the Westhampton area used for fighter pilot training during World War II, searching for explosive-filled munitions and conducting soil and groundwater sampling.

The work under the Army Corps’ Formerly Used Defense Sites program will be conducted in three phases, the first of which is expected to begin this year and the third expected to be completed by December 2022, according to the Army Corps. The investigation area, which includes public and private lands, is about two miles north of Westhampton Beach, west of Gabreski Airport and stretches into Speonk.

The expanse was used for fighter pilot training during World War II, said Bryan Purtell, public affairs specialist at the Army Corps’ New England District. Most of it is now open space.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/westhampton-explosive-munitions-search-army-corps-1.50182764

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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