2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 10 Jul 2006 21:55:39 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Anza-Borrego (CA) munitions cleanup
 
Operation desert cleanup

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to collect WWII practice ordnance left in Anza-Borrego

By J. Harry Jones
San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
July 9, 2006

BORREGO SPRINGS – More than 60 years ago, thousands of young American soldiers, under the command of Gen. George S. Patton, trained in the desert east of this town in anticipation of coming battles against the Nazis in North Africa.

Now it's finally time to clean up what was left behind.

Within the coming year, the Army Corps of Engineers is planning a major effort to locate and destroy bombs, rockets and artillery shells left by troops between 1942 and 1944.

On average of about once a week, the Corps says, the Sheriff's Department or Anza-Borrego Desert State Park rangers receive a report from someone who has discovered ordnance in the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060709/news_lz1mi9operati.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> http://www.cpeo.org


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