Similar stories here in NJ/NY and not just in the water... A few years ago a major recovery effort began in the Raritan River downstream of New Brunswick. They 'thought' they had cleaned up a lot of ordnance from an armory and depot that had been there during WW I. Turned out there are still lots of grenades, etc. in the estuarine mud nobody knew about.... Could still be ongoing for all I know... Some of the really good hiking trails above Harriman and Bear Mountain NY had to be closed a coupla years ago during drought conditions because of fire hazard. It was discovered at that time there was a lot of unexploded ordnance up there, too. At one the area was used for artillery target practice by West Pointers. They later did a sweep and cleared the area twenty feet away from all the trails. Now they've gone back to do the whole area... There was an area along the ocean at Sandy Hook we used to call Shell Beach because of what would occasionally be exposed along it. NPS has done a really good job of cleaning that up... (see the current issue of Archaeology Magazine for an article about that area). Joe P. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 21 2004 - 07:02:57 PDT
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