[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Bonneville editorial

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

In Our View: Pay for the Cleanup
Camp Bonneville project must resume with commitment from Army officials


Editorial
Columbian (WA)
June 3, 2011

Clark County commissioners remain correctly focused on a simple  
concept: Whoever made the mess at Camp Bonneville needs to clean it  
up. That would be the Army, which for eight decades used the 3,840- 
acre site in east county as an artillery range and training area. A  
dangerous mix of munitions remains buried on the grounds.

If only the cleanup were as simple as the concept. County leaders  
have been unable to convince Army officials that it’s long past time  
to agree on a new cleanup contract. This week the county  
commissioners got a little tougher; they gave recalcitrant Army  
officials a July 14 deadline to commit to continue funding the  
cleanup. “The negotiations with the Army have always been difficult,”  
said Pete Capell, director of Clark County Public Works, in a  
Thursday Columbian story. “It’s not our responsibility to clean up  
their mess. We don’t have the resources to do it in the first place.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/jun/03/pay-for-the-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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