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The search teams comb through the backyards of the half-million-dollar homes with metal detectors, placing red flags on the manicured lawns every time they get a hit. To the shock of residents, they sometimes find live bombs.
The bombs are left over from a 12,000-acre World War II bombing range. The area has become an Orlando neighborhood with thousands of homes.
The Army Corps of Engineers has launched a $10 million cleanup of what used to be the PineCastle Jeep Range, but it said bombs could remain there once they’re done.
“Chances are, it’s not a problem,” said Mike Ornella, the man leading the Army Corps cleanup.
“It’s incomprehensible,” said Frank Kruppenbacher, the general counsel of the Orange County school board. “It starts with my wondering why the U.S. military ever allowed any of these properties [to] be developed without first saying you have to go through a checklist.”
Want to buy a really nice home – cheap?
Must be part of the Florida real estate BOOM!
DizzyWorld should turn it into a theme park!
But they got the land for cheap. Isn’t that all that matters???
This just on land. They dumped thousands of tons of live shells and chemical weapons into the sea, around New Zealand, after WWII. Imagine, fishing up a live mustard gas round.
Come have a blast in Florida.
It’s Dyn-O-Mite!
Florida’s d’bomb.
ok I’m done.
Minesweeper in real life, what more could you ask for?
Golf term…
4!!!!!
Maybe but I don’t think I’d be doing any digging on my place if I did.
Please note that nothing has actually gone bang even when people were digging foundations and moving heavy equipment around.
Seriously though this place should have been a “wild life preserve”.
“Chances are, it’s not a problem,” said Mike ‘Stumpy’ Ornella, the man leading the Army Corps cleanup.
Since when has the USA Military ever wilfully cleaned up one of their sites? That’s what the UN bomb defusal teams are for. We drop bombs on a country, get bored, leave and after about 20,000 children get their legs lopped off by buried munitions, the UN sends guys in to clean up bomb by bomb, usually takes about 50 years or so.
Repeat the process every time the USA bombs something, you get the idea.
Edwin, they’ve been dredging up silt/etc and dumping them on beaches to help prevent/offset erosion. One of the downsides in New Jersey was that they dumped a bunch of live WWI fuses on one of the beaches…
http://www.wnbc.com/news/15783258/detail.html
Who really gives a fuck, I live in Texas!