[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Unexploded ordnance removal in Waikoloa Village (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

USACE informs on upcoming unexploded ordnance removal in Waikoloa Village

By Max Dible 
West Hawaii Today 
September 1, 2018

WAIKOLOA — Some operations are meant to end with a bang.

An upcoming U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiative to clear portions of Waikoloa Village of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left behind after U.S. Marine Corps training during wartime in the mid-1940s has almost precisely the opposite goal. Almost.

Typical USACE protocol is to evaluate any detected UXO and remove it for detonation at another site, if possible. If moving the item proves too dangerous, however, investigators will detonate UXO on site using live explosives. Hence, the evacuation order USACE has been circulating for weeks for a portion of the village.

Loren Zulick, project manager with USACE, explained the details of the clearance to a few dozen attendees at a forum on the coming action held Thursday night at Waikoloa Elementary and Middle School. While his general message wasn’t exactly breaking news to those seated in the cafeteria, some of his presentation brought new information to light.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/09/01/hawaii-news/usace-informs-on-upcoming-unexploded-ordnance-removal-in-waikoloa-village/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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