29/01/2023 Stati Uniti (United States-USA), Texas (TX)
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law e enforcement agency for assistance”.
by Haley Samsel and Izzy Acheson
Denton County-Parker County-Tarrant County-Wise County. Nearly a decade ago, staff at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth realized they had a problem. Long before the Navy took over operations, the site was known as Carswell Air Force Base — a hub for training pilots and supporting heavy bombers during the Cold War. While the Air Force closed the base in 1994, environmental cleanups and oversight didn’t become the Navy’s responsibility until 20 years later. Soon after assuming environmental duties, Navy staff found the Air Force had not yet conducted an inventory of what the Department of Defense calls “military munitions/unexploded ordnance” sites on the base. Those sites can range from former shooting ranges to fields containing partially detonated explosives used during training activities. Through a 2015 assessment, the Navy discovered three contaminated sites across the base in northwest Fort Worth, according to Bob Fisher, the environmental restoration branch head for the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command. The contaminated sites comprise a former skeet range; a former small arms pistol range; and a former machine gun range and rifle range located next to each other. “Initially we had no documentation that any were there, but we suspected that there may be some because it was a pretty common practice for military installations, particularly those installations that had pilots, to have skeet ranges and other smaller ranges where they would practice and train their eye,” Fisher said. Eight years later, Navy officials believe they’re rounding the corner on the cleanup process, with environmental remediation – including soil removal and replacement – planned in early 2023.
Photo-Source: fortworthreport.org
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