[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Fort Hunter Liggett (CA) lead releases

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hunter Liggett, two Salinas sites on state's toxic list

by PAUL C. BARTON
Salinas Californian
May. 11, 2012

WASHINGTON - Fort Hunter Liggett, site of live-fire training for the  
U.S. Army in south Monterey County, continues to rank among the top  
sites in California for the accumulation of toxic materials, the  
Environmental Protection Agency says.

The agency's latest Toxic Release Inventory shows the fort generates  
the 10th highest total in the state of "persistent bioaccumulative  
toxics" or PBTs.

...

Live-firing exercises in 2010 generated almost 24,000 pounds of lead  
from spent bullets at the 165,000-acre site. They also left 16,194  
pounds of copper from ammunition casings.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20120512/NEWS01/205120311/ 
Hunter-Liggett-two-Salinas-sites-state-s-toxic-list

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Lenny Siegel
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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