2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 26 Sep 2006 01:09:19 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Pyramid Lake (NV( ordnance cleanup
 
Lake Cleanup Inspires Deep Innovation

By David Killam, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District
Environmental Update, U.S. Army Environmental Center
Summer 2006

It’s 1945. The war is over and you have a lot of ammunition to get rid of. What do you do? Simple — you dump it into the lake. That’s the way people used to think.

Sixty years later that ammunition is still at the bottom of the lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will clean up the ammunition, but it’s no easy task. Pyramid Lake, Nev., covers more than 110,000 acres, nobody knows exactly where the ammo is, and the Paiute Indians, who own the lake, have concerns of their own.

The team that finally removed the ammunition from the Pyramid Lake Formerly Used Defense Site earned the fiscal 2005 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award for Environmental Restoration. But the award represents years of cooperation and innovation.

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For the entire article, see
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/update/sum06/sum0611.html

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