Surf City, New Jersey  Munition fuzes dating back from the WWII era shut down a beach replenishment project on Long Beach Island located in Ocean County. The fuzes were reportedly mixed in with sand that was dredged from the ocean by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) managed project.

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Whitchurch, United Kingdom  Construction workers working at the site of a new community town center uncovered a UXO. The construction crew called the local police who responded with a bomb squad. The bomb squad determined that the item was not safe to move and proceeded to dispose of the item in place by open detonation.

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Amsterdam  a group of five NATO mine sweeping ships have begun a search of the Dutch coast for munitions and sea mines. The munitions and mines they are searching for date back to WWII.

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Sacramento, California  Several family members of a recently deceased man were cleaning out his personal items when they came across a box labeled "explosives". Concerned, the family members decided to set the box in the front lawn of the South Sacramento house and call the police.

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The military uses riot control agent filled munitions including grenades and projectiles for tactical purposes such as flushing enemy from bunkers and tunnels. Two such riot control agent fillers are Chloracetophenone commonly called CN and Orthochlorobenzylidene Malononitrile commonly called CS. CN and CS agents are considered irritants and are often referred to as "Tear Gas".

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DoD is reportedly updating the Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) Prioritization Protocol that was published in the Federal Register back in October 2005. The updates appear to be focused on the Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) module of the protocol. The changes include expanding the HHE module to include evaluations of groundwater (GW), surface water (SW), sediment, and surface soil data elements for each MMRP site. The SW and sediment data elements are further evaluated for potential human receptors and ecological receptors separately. The October 2005 version of the protocol did not differentiate between the various pathways (i.e. GW, SW, and sediment) or the receptors (i.e. human or ecological).

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