So-called 'Pristine' Big Lagoon on DoD/DTSC Clean Up List

As it turns out the area in Humboldt County that Peter Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal Commission called “pristine” and “untouched” in an essay he wrote for Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle was once part of a 156-acre bombing and rocket target range. Perhaps Douglas meant “untouched” since it was abandoned by the Defense Department as a bombing range.

Both the Big Lagoon and the Big Lagoon Rancheria Indian Reservation have been on the Defense Department’s list of pending Defense Department/Army Corps & California State Department of Toxic Substance Control’s pending clean up lists for at least a decade.

The Defense Department in its last report to Congress estimated it would take $7.2 million to complete clean up of the Big Lagoon identified sites.

Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS)

California Inventory List

DOD - Defense Environmental Programs Annual Report to Congress

Military Munitions Response Program

Big Lagoon Bombing Target	Trinidad Bombing Target
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Calif Department of Toxic Substance Control

BIG LAGOON TARGET RANGE

Big Lagoon bombing Target (BIG LAGOON INDIAN RESERVATION)

TRINIDAD BOMBING TARGET

		SITE NAME	SITE TYPE/ STATUS	DESC	CITY	COUNTY
[REPORT]		BIG LAGOON BOMBING TARGET (IND RESERV)	MILITARY EVALUATION /DERA	INACTIVE - NEEDS EVALUATION	BIG LAGOON	HUMBOLDT
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[REPORT]		BIG LAGOON TARGET RANGE	MILITARY EVALUATION/DERA	INACTIVE - NEEDS EVALUATION	BIG LAGOON	HUMBOLDT
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[REPORT]		TRINIDAD BOMB TARGET	MILITARY EVALUATION /DERA	INACTIVE - NEEDS EVALUATION	TRINIDAD	HUMBOLDT
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