[CPEO-MEF] Uranium at Schofield Barracks (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schofield uranium find prompts call for probe

By Rod Ohira
Honolulu Advertiser
January 6, 2006

	

A coalition of environmental and Native Hawaiian rights groups are 
calling for an independent investigation and disclosure by the Army of 
depleted uranium munitions use in Hawai'i based on recently obtained 
information confirming its presence at Schofield.

The Army said yesterday that the depleted uranium in question poses no 
threat.

The coalition DMZ Hawai'i/ Aloha 'Aina cited a Sept. 19 e-mail message 
from Samuel P. McManus of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center 
in Huntsville, Ala., to Ronald Borne, an Army employee involved with 
preparations for the Stryker brigade at Schofield Barracks. The e-mail 
involved the high cost of unexploded ordnance removal in preparation for 
the construction of a new Stryker brigade battle area complex at 
Schofield. In the e-mail, McManus noted, "We have found much that we did 
not expect, including the recent find of depleted uranium."

...

For the entire article, see
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/06/ln/FP601060367.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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