[CPEO-IRF] Fort Ord (CA) tour

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TOUR TOUTS ONGOING FORT ORD CLEANUP

By JULIA REYNOLDS
Monterey Herald (CA)
June 11, 2006

Members of the team charged with cleaning up contamination on Fort Ord 
were on hand Saturday to show off their work.

The Army's Base Realignment and Closure office gave free bus tours to 
tout its environmental cleanup efforts on the 28,000-acre site.

Saturday's tour guides made it clear there was -- and still is -- a lot 
to do.

"This was the Army's backyard," said Lyle Shurtleff, who works in BRAC's 
munitions cleanup program. "The Army never planned on having to give 
this place back."

For 90 minutes, residents were guided through usually off-limits parts 
of the former Army installation. They got a few answers to the kinds of 
questions that can nag a person driving past the old base on Highway 1.

For instance, the occasional putrid smell wafting over the highway is 
sewage stuck in a treatment line. BRAC spokeswoman Melissa Broadston 
said the Monterey County Sheriff's Office recently called the agency to 
inquire about it, and tourists sometimes ask if a whale died.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/14793561.htm
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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