[CPEO-MEF] Waikane Valley (August, 2004 article)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents seek total Waikane cleanup 

By Eloise Aguiar 
Honolulu Advertiser 
AUGUST 5, 2004

WAIKANE ? As the federal government embarks on a project to assess and
possibly clear ordnance from a portion of an old military training
ground, area residents called for the cleanup of the entire site at a
meeting last night at Waiahole Elementary School. 

The Department of Defense has placed 874 acres of the Waikane Training
Area under the jurisdiction of the Defense Environmental Restoration
Program for Formerly Used Defense Sites, which is administered by the
Army Corps of Engineers. 

The original training area covered 1,061 acres. The project will not
include an 187-acre parcel that was owned by the Kamaka family and
condemned in 1993 by the Marine Corps, which at the time cited public
safety and an inability to absolutely eliminate the danger of unexploded
ordnance. 

Members of the Kamaka family, neighborhood board representatives and
others insisted that the Department of Defense should do the entire
training ground and return the land to the "rightful" owners. 

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for the entire article, see
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Aug/05/ln/ln22a.html
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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>
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