[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL - Bombs at Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) golf course

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

WWII bomb scare at golf course
Former training range on Enoch reserve to be searched for buried explosives

Jim Farrell
The Edmonton Journal (ALB)
February 5, 2008

EDMONTON - Big divots are expected this spring at an Edmonton-area golf 
course as workers dig in a search for unexploded Second World War-era bombs.

The search follows the discovery of several practice bombs in 2006 
during construction of the Indian Lakes Golf Course on the Enoch Reserve.

 From 1942 until 1944, air crews flying out of City Centre Airport used 
the area as a practice bombing range as part of the British Commonwealth 
Air Training Program. That qualifies the area as one of hundreds of UXO 
(unexploded ordnance) sites in Canada.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=24a303fc-c47c-45b2-b178-cb8dd04a28e9&k=65684

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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