Hawthorne Army Depot

Installation Restoration Program
Hawthorne, Nevada

HWAAP-K11
SKEET RANGE

SITE DESCRIPTION
The skeet range is located in the main cantonment area and is approximately 10 acres in size. The skeet range operated on the site during the 1960s for several years. All buildings and structures associated with the skeet range operations have since been removed. The firing line is still evident. Clay pigeon fragments were observed extending out, in a fin-like pattern, 200 feet from the firing line. The shot characteristics (type and size) are unknown. Lead shot was not evident on close inspection of the soil.

Twelve four-point composite surface soil samples were collected and used to evaluate the soil pathway. Samples were collected from the expected shot fall zone located between 300 feet to 600 feet from the firing line. All samples were analyzed for arsenic, chromium, copper, and lead. The sampling results were lower than the proposed closure goals.

PROPOSED PLAN
A Closure Decision Document was approved by the NDEP in May 2003.

Decision Document
 

 

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