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An 11-year-long
project to clear and clean nearly 3,000 acres of Fort McClellan training ranges
ended Wednesday.Local, state, and national legislators celebrated the conclusion with a Final Big Bang ceremony. The McClellan Development Authority-organized the event which included the explosions of a pair of Pentolite boosters. Congressman Mike Rogers, lieutenant governor Kay Ivey, state senator Del Marsh, and Anniston mayor Vaughn Stewart pressed the buttons that sent a charge along a detonation cord.
Contractors cleared 2,781 acres of unexploded ordnance area -- land once used for firing munitions.
Crews surveyed and marked 13,643 grids, each 100 feet long and 100 feet wide. Scanners detected 387,909 things to excavate. Disposal teams destroyed 14,338 munitions and recovered nearly 3-million pounds of munitions related scrap.
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ReplyDeleteVeterans, families and children of Fort McClellan, Anniston, Alabama toxic exposure look forward to Rep Mike Rogers acknowledging the harm to humans. We also look forward to him becoming a champion for legislation which would bring notification to possibly 700,000 people who were never notfied their health was in harm's way. We also realize the sound of a cannon and music may mean a cermonial end to the "clean up" at FTMC, but the remediation is still ongoing. We were once left out, excluded, but now we are very aware Mr Rogers. We are looking forward to your help in 2015.
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