2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 19 Jul 2006 07:14:09 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Wide Area Assessment Pilot results
 
Initial Results from Wide Area Assessment Pilot Program Demonstrate Potential to Release Large Tracts of Land

SERDP & ESTCP Information Bulletin
Spring 2005

Approximately 2,500 DoD sites, comprising over 10 million acres, are known or suspected to contain munitions. A typical site encompasses thousands of acres with many exceeding 10,000 acres, and a few are several hundred thousand acres. Most of these sites are Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) for which DoD retains liability for munitions. Using current groundbased geophysics, complete characterization and remediation of such large areas would cost tens of billions of dollars. The Defense Science Board Task Force on Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) has estimated, however, that no more than 20% of those 10 million suspected acres are actually contaminated with UXO. Thus, identifying a technology or combination of technologies to accurately delineate the contaminated areas on each site would significantly reduce the area requiring site investigation and response and would allow limited cleanup resources to be used more judiciously.

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To download the entire Bulletin issue (a 540 KB PDF file), go to
http://www.serdp.org/upload/06%20Spring%20-%20Final.pdf
The article begins on page 3.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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