[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: Bellows Air Force Station (HI) "Training area scattered with old munitions envisioned as housing area after clean-up"

[Lenny Siegel]

Training area scattered with old munitions envisioned as housing area after clean-up

By Allyson Blair
Hawaii News Now
May 28, 2024

HONOLULU - A Hawaii lawmaker is behind a years-long push to rid a 138-acre property at Bellows Air Force Station of decades-old explosives. Her hope: That the land will eventually be released to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for housing.

For nearly a century, the property — known as TM001 — has been occupied by the military. It borders a residential neighborhood and Waimanalo Bay, and has been used for everything from an aerial gunnery target range in the 1930s, to a Nike Missile site during the Cold War and an Urban Warfare Training Facility after that. Today, it’s used for non-munitions training exercises.

But Rep. Lisa Marten says that won’t be the case much longer.

“That is something the Air Force wants to release,” she said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/05/29/warfare-training-area-scattered-with-old-munitions-envisioned-housing-area-after-clean-up/

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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
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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)