[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, PERCHLORATE: Camp Bonneville (WA) cleanup resumes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Bonneville cleanup resumes after 3-year hiatus because of higher- 
than-expected contamination

Peter Beland
Oregonian
October 14, 2012

A pair of deer bolt across a road from a thicket of trees and settle  
onto a patch of overgrown grass near a duck pond -- a spot that  
millions of bullets once zipped past on their way to cutout targets  
emblazoned with the red star of the Soviet Union.

This rifle range and other parts of the Camp Bonneville Military  
Reservation, about 12 miles east of Vancouver and 6 miles north of  
Camas, are in the first of four phases of a recently resumed cleanup  
that will eventually lead to the creation of a regional park and  
wildlife area in a nearly 4,000-acre area ravaged by nearly 90 years  
of U.S. Army use.

Staff from Clark County and the state Department of Ecology presented  
to the county Clean Water Commission earlier this month an update on  
the cleanup, which has been ongoing with starts and stops for nearly  
a decade. The presentation highlighted water contamination issues,  
what the next two years will look like, and forest stewardship  
initiatives underway.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2012/10/ 
camp_bonneville_cleanup_resume.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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