[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Army Engineers Push Forward With WWII Bomb Survey On Big Island, " HI

[Lenny Siegel]

Army Engineers Push Forward With WWII Bomb Survey On Big Island
The bullets and bombs were left on the range there 80 years ago, but the U.S. military is still cleaning up the mess. 

By Thomas Heaton  
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)  
October 25, 2023
   
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to survey 13,500 acres of Hawaii island’s former Waikoloa Maneuver Area, a World War II-era bombing range that is no longer in use.

The surveying will guide the eventual sweep for unexploded ordnance from two sectors of WMA, which represents just over 10% of 100,000 acres once used by U.S. Marines for training in the area. 

The threat of unexploded ordnance, known as UXO, has been a hazard for decades throughout the South Kohala District and residents have taken issue with the pace of the work since 1993, as it influences development, among other things.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/10/army-engineers-push-forward-with-wwii-bomb-survey-on-big-island/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at 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)