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SEASIDE, Calif.- On Thursday, we went to go find out how big projects are being affected by the former Fort Ord's Military Munitions Response Program and if they can't ever get the place secure and safe.
"What's your estimated time for the next detonation?" said munitions response project manager Lyle Schurtleff.
Schurtleff has been working on blowing up left over ammunition, from the time the based closed in the mid-nineties.
"As a retired army officer, having been assigned here as active, my wife says that I actually shot some of these shells in here, that I am now responsible for cleaning up," Schurtleff said.
Schurtleff said the 6,700 acre area is booby-trapped with ammunition because soldiers used it as a training field. He said it's separate from the land slated for development and doesn't impact any future projects. But theres still a few undiscovered areas where ammunition could be hiding.
"Because the ordanance was used here and it impacted here, there's no way to be able to determine or to make a removal so thorough, that we could guarantee that there would be no risk, it's simply a level of risk that we are able to reduce it to," Schurtleff said.
They plan to get the land to a safe level by 2019, then the Bureau of Land Management will work to restore it to its natural habitat.
