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Residents fight Corps plan for Guam range
Residents fight Corps plan for Guam range
By Amritha Alladi - Pacific Daily News via Gannett News Service
Posted : Monday Dec 28, 2009 8:12:35 EST

Sixty-one-year-old Lourdes Sgambelluri Pisarri remembers learning to swim in the Marbo Caves.

When she was 6, her grandfather, Marcello Sgambelluri, took her down to the freshwater caves, where she saw lobster and shrimp crawling at the bottom of the pool, and the stalactites and stalagmites jutting from its walls.

“It’s freshwater that abuts the ocean. It’s one of the most miraculous things that you can have,” Pisarri said. “A freshwater pool, and the ocean is right there next to it.”

But in a few months, access to those caves may be limited, and the lands where Pisarri’s family farmed may be tainted with runoff from a decontamination facility and shooting range to be built there by the military, as part of their buildup projects, Pisarri said.

It’s about 1,000 acres of ancestral land that’s been in the Sgambelluri family for almost 100 years, Pisarri said. Now, the military is planning to construct a Marine training facility there.


Rest of article at: http://marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/12/gns_guam_corps_range_plan_122809/
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