Army investigating ordnance found in driveway material

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&ncid=2270&e=2&u=/krwashbureau/20050216/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_clammunition_wa

WASHINGTON - Prepare to be shell-shocked: Ordnance experts are scrambling to defuse driveways that have the potential to explode.

The U.S. Army is investigating incidents of unexploded World War I-era munitions showing up in clamshells used as paving material for driveways and parking areas in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

The ordnance was dredged up over the past 18 months from the ocean floor during mechanical clam harvesting operations off the New Jersey coast, in the vicinity of Atlantic City, according to Robert Williams of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is conducting the probe.

More than 300 munitions - mostly British and French-made hand grenades but at least one 75 mm projectile containing a chemical agent - have been recovered from 18 driveways and a Delaware clam-processing plant, Williams said.

Some grenades were actually found inside the clams.

Last February, a Bridgeville, Del., resident discovered 32 corroded - but live - hand grenades while spreading crushed clamshells delivered to his property. Subsequent similar discoveries triggered the investigation.

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1. Now that's a serious speed bump!

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2. Yet more proof just how irresponsible the thugs in green are!

WTF! They just dump weapons of war where they'll be dredged up! Any chance of getting the army idiots responsible charged with attempted murder? Nah, they're never held responsible for their actions.

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3. They have probably been dead for over several decades

from what I am reading it is WWI ordinance that was dumped. So this probably happened before WWII