Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, New Bomb Open Burning/Open Detonation Grounds EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Surface Sweep - A Project Overview

Download or read book Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, New Bomb Open Burning/Open Detonation Grounds EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Surface Sweep - A Project Overview written by C. D. Douthat and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Division recently completed a contract for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Surface Sweep of the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant (HWAAP), Nevada, New Bomb Open Burning/Open Detonation Grounds (OB/OD). The scope of the contract required the location and rendering safe of approximately 5000 tons of ordnance fragments and 25,000 items of unexploded ordnance. This was a manual labor intensive operation under the direct supervision of civilian EOD qualified supervisors. The completion of this project has demonstrated that what was once an exclusive military function can be done in a safe and effective manner by civilian forces.