Live fire training range report issued
Following public meetings that were held in May, the Navy today released its draft review and analysis of the alternative areas for the proposed Live Fire Training Range Complex in Guam and the CNMI.
October 23, 2014Updated: October 23, 2014
By KUAM News
By KUAM News by Sabrina Salas Matanane
Guam - Following public meetings that were held in May, the Navy today released its draft review and analysis of the alternative areas for the proposed Live Fire Training Range Complex in Guam and the CNMI. The proposed alternatives are located near Route 15, land at Naval Magazine and the preferred alternative and most controversial near Northwest Field. The Draft Guam Training Range Review and Analysis or TRRA addresses historic properties and other cultural resources in the proposed training range sites. According to the draft all of the alternatives would require utility improvement corridors, which includes trenching for power, potable water, waste-water, and solid waste disposal as well as information technology and communications utility lines. As for the preferred alternative at Northwest Field, the proposed range would encompass 39-hundred acres in Air Force property and in portions of the Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, plus two acres at Andersen South. There are also 33 known archaeological sites that would potentially be directly impacted. These sites contain artifact scatters, rock alignments, caves, rock shelters, historic antennae bases and concrete enclosures.
Guam - Following public meetings that were held in May, the Navy today released its draft review and analysis of the alternative areas for the proposed Live Fire Training Range Complex in Guam and the CNMI. The proposed alternatives are located near Route 15, land at Naval Magazine and the preferred alternative and most controversial near Northwest Field. The Draft Guam Training Range Review and Analysis or TRRA addresses historic properties and other cultural resources in the proposed training range sites. According to the draft all of the alternatives would require utility improvement corridors, which includes trenching for power, potable water, waste-water, and solid waste disposal as well as information technology and communications utility lines. As for the preferred alternative at Northwest Field, the proposed range would encompass 39-hundred acres in Air Force property and in portions of the Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, plus two acres at Andersen South. There are also 33 known archaeological sites that would potentially be directly impacted. These sites contain artifact scatters, rock alignments, caves, rock shelters, historic antennae bases and concrete enclosures.