[CPEO-MEF] Mortar Rounds Found on Mass. Base

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Saturday September 23 8:16 PM ET
Mortar Rounds Found on Mass. Base 

SANDWICH, Mass. (AP) - Contractors digging a well at a polluted military
base on Cape Cod unearthed more than 225 mortar shells and rounds less than
half a mile from an elementary school.

``None of them are fused, so there is no potential for any of them to
blow,'' said Jason Alves, of the Massachusetts Military Reservation's
Impact     Area Groundwater Study Office, which is directing the well's
installation. ``They were likely used for some kind of training, but we
just don't know what kind.''

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