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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2013
Caption: Former Firing Range Becomes a State Park Marker
Additional Description: Captions: The new park land came with remnants of 15 firing ranges, 12 ammunition bunkers, a sewage plant and over 100 abandoned buildings. (upper right); Clean-up required removing and recycling over 700,000 pounds of spent ammunition and trucking lead contaminated soil to and offsite landfill. (bottom left); Military era buildings and ammo storage bunkers needed to be checked for hazardous materials and prioritized for either preservation or demolition. (bottom center); Planted by the Army to stabilize the dunes, exotic ice plants crowds out native species and will require years of effort to remove. (bottom right).
Submitted: September 29, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p255493
File Size: 3.447 Megabytes

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