[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Ft. Indiantown Gap (PA) unexploded ordnance

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Workers find munitions on state game lands near Gap

By BRAD RHEN
Lebanon Daily News (PA)
April 8,2010

STONY VALLEY - This winter, a Lykens man was searching State Game Lands 
211 north of Fort Indiantown Gap for deer antlers.

Instead, he found a piece of unexploded ordnance, or UXO, and took it home.

He later read a story in a newspaper about a program to search for 
military munitions fired from the Gap that, for one reason or another, 
landed in the game lands.

"He saw a story in the paper, called me on the phone, and it was the 
real deal," National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Cleaver said 
Wednesday. "They called state police and brought it back to the Gap, and 
it did explode in a controlled detonation."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_14845780

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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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