05/04/2023 Stati Uniti (United States-USA), Hawaii, Isola di Hawaii, (Island of Hawai’i-Big Island), Waikoloa
“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”.
Eight decades after the military battered parts of Hawaii Island with grenades, mortars, and bombs, lost munitions remain scattered across several communities ― all with the potential to explode. Today, more than 20,000 people call the WWII-era Waikoloa Maneuver Area home. The formerly used defense site covers 100,000 acres. It extends from the popular Waikoloa resort area east to Waimea and beyond. “Several people have died here interacting with these unexploded ordinances. So it’s a serious hazard,” said Hawaii Department of Health Environmental Specialist Sven Lindstrom. That’s why the Health Department wants property owners who live within the Waikoloa Maneuver Area to work with a certified bomb technician every time they do digging. But red tape is preventing the agency tasked with overseeing a decades-long cleanup from helping make sure that happens.
‘Every one has the potential to go off’
Over the past two decades, the Army Corps of Engineers has recovered more than 2,700 unexploded munitions as part of an ongoing cleanup of the Waikoloa Maneuver Area. We have to assume that each and every one of these has the potential to go off,” Lindstrom said. “So it’s very important that the public be made aware of their presence and they know how to deal with them if they come across them.”
Photo-Source: hawaiinewsnow.com
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