Crews Make Plans on Undetonated Bombs at Camp Fannin Site

TYLER — The Army Corps of Engineers says it’ll be July when crews begin removing undetonated bombs left over from Tyler’s World War II-era Camp Fannin. According to our news partner KETK, after the camp was sold to private landowners, people began discovering equipment left behind by the soldiers who trained there. The most common items found have been mortars and sharp pieces of metal. For more than 40 years the Corps has done research to find where most of the undetonated bombs could be, and what it would take to safely remove them. The process of removal will happen in stages. If they find a sharp piece of metal, crews will leave it in place. If it’s a bomb, they will conduct a controlled detonation. The project’s due to wrap up by 2021.