[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, MUNITIONS: Dugway-Yellow Jacket (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army says Dugway site not hazardous

By Lee Davidson
Deseret News (UT)
June 6, 2008

After 20 years of fighting about how to handle contamination from 
once-secret arms tests on lands just outside of Dugway Proving Ground, 
the Army says a new study has found that none of that contamination is 
actually dangerous.

"The probability that you will walk out of this building and get hit by 
a car in the parking lot is higher" than anyone being hurt by any old 
munitions in the "Yellow Jacket" area of the Dugway Mountains, said 
Jerry Vincent, manager of the Formerly Used Defense Site Program for the 
Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District.

He said contamination there now is just old scrap metal from spent 
rockets, bombs, artillery shells and other munitions — with no intact 
explosives or chemical agents found. They come from World War II tests 
that used mines there for research on how to attack cave defenses used 
by Japanese soldiers.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700232401,00.html

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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
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