Interesting neighbours moving in!

A man was just here looking around at what Annie may have available for rent. I say may because the workers are still working on the studio that was supposed to be mine. That's why I am in a room only. Ok, the interesting part is that this gentleman is looking to rent for some men in the U.S. Army who will be here for clean ups, controlled ordinance detonations. There have been many such clean ups here this year.

What I haven't told you all is that Culebra was a favourite of the U.S. military for target practice.

A little history:

Army Corps slates Culebra hearing

By CB Online Staff

cbnews@caribbeanbusinesspr.com

he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled a meeting for next week to inform the public on cleanup efforts on Culebra.

The Army Corps is conducting a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study to determine the extent of contamination on Culebra after decades of live-fire military exercises there.

The meeting is scheduled for May 5 at the Ecological School on Culebra. The federal agency will provide an update on works and future plans.

The Navy began using Culebra as a firing range in 1939. Public opposition to exercises and a proposed expansion of the range reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1971, an agreement signed by the Secretary of the Navy, the governor of Puerto Rico, and the mayor of Culebra marked the end of ordnance use on Culebra and the surrounding cays, and on September 30, 1975, all ordnance use on Culebra ended.

All property formerly held by the Navy was eventually transferred back to the Puerto Rico government and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and all ordnance operations were moved to Vieques. The Navy abandoned training on Vieques amid widespread protests in 2003.