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BOOK 95 FACE 320 <br />Eventually, the COE will prepare a Final Engineering Evaluation Cost Analysis from <br />which an Action Plan will be prepared. I would recommend that Doug Wright, <br />Emergency Services, Charlie Vitunac, County Attorney, Bob Keating, Community <br />Development Director, Terry Pinto, Utilities Director, and you attend this meeting on <br />June 5 with me. <br />If you have any questions, please contact me. <br />Public Works Director Jim Davis introduced Robert Bridgers and <br />William Davis of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who distributed <br />copies of an informational hand-out. <br />Project Location <br />The former U.S. Naval Amphibious Training Base, Fort <br />Pierce, FL (forma FL Pierce NATB), consisting of <br />approximately 19,000 acres, was located on North and <br />South Hutchinson Islands in Indian Riva, St. Lucie, and <br />Martin Counties, FL. Situated on barrier islands, the site <br />is long and narrow. extending approximately 23 miles <br />from rmrttn-northwest to south-southeast. The northern <br />extent of areas Identified as likely to contain <br />conventional ordnance and explosive wastehmexploded <br />ordnance (0EWA1X0) Is near the southeast boundary of <br />Vero Beach. FL, and the southernmost of time areas Is <br />am Nettles Island Jost north of Jensen Beach, Fl. <br />Site Illstory <br />The former FL Pierce NATB site was established In 1942 <br />as a World War R (WWII) naval amphibious training <br />base. Development of the hoes first training activity <br />was focused near Ft Pierce inlet. on South Hutchinson <br />Island, and a filled extension of South Hutchinson Island <br />(mown as Causeway Island. The base extended north <br />about as far as Queen's Cove on North Hutchinson Island <br />(including the Naval Combat Demolition Unit Area). <br />The base camp. Including troop quarters, was on <br />Causeway Island, and training exercises were conducted <br />on outlying areas of North and South Hutchinson Islands. <br />During 1943, the Joint Army Navy Experimental and <br />Testing Board (JANE'1) was established at the former <br />FL Pierce NATE. JANErs mission was to develop and <br />test procedures for breaking through (breaching) and <br />removing beach fortifications expected to be encountered <br />In Europe and Japan. JANET operations extended north <br />from the Naval Combat Demolition Unit Area on North <br />Hutchinson Island toward Veto Beach. Along this <br />northern portion of the forte Ft. Pierce NATB, beeches <br />were fortified, and alternative techniques for breaching <br />and removing time fortifications were tested. When <br />JANET was established, some of the conventional <br />training activities were relocated from North Hutchinson <br />Island to South Hutchinson Island, specifically the small <br />amts artillery range. <br />The U.S. Achy Chemical Warfare Service Medical and <br />Technical Divisions, charged with the task of studying <br />Me persistence of mustard in the beach environment, <br />operated at the former FL Pierce NATB from <br />approximately late 1943 to February 1944. Mustard <br />simulant and limited amounts of live mustard agent were <br />U.S. Army Corps <br />of Engineers <br />Former <br />Ft. Pierce <br />Naval <br />Amphibious <br />Training <br />used in the Chemical Warfare Test Area (now under <br />water), located on South Hutchinson Island. No evidence <br />exists of any chemical warfare material (CWM) being <br />disposed of in the FL Pierce area This operation was <br />transferred to the Dry Tortugas, where larger -stale <br />testing was performed. <br />Fr <br />L • former ft. Pierre MA16 • former It. Pierre MAIB • former ft. Pierre MAIB a former ft. Pierre MAIB • Former ft. Pierre NIB o <br />42 <br />June, 6 1995 <br />