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Show Engineers to Stage Explosions In Testing Program It was announced this weel. by L. F. ingram of tue U. b. Army Corps of Engmee.s' Waterways Experiment station sta-tion that a series of small explosions will be fired near the Three Peaks area about 8 miles northwest of Cedar City. The detonations will be conducted during the period per-iod May 20 to 30 as a part of the Department of Defense sponsored research project Operation Mine Shaft. Each charge Will consist of 1,000 lbs., of TNT that is detonated de-tonated near the surface of various rock outcroppings to stuuy cratenng and ground shocK ejects. lie information obtained from these tests will be ut,ed in the design of additional ad-ditional experiments scheduled schedul-ed for October of this year in the same general vicinity. Mr, Ingram said that one or more charges will be detonated de-tonated each day, probably in the early afternoon hours. Test procedures include pro-Visions pro-Visions for notifying responsible respon-sible local OxLcials and safety safe-ty precautions to insure that all parsons and livestock are well clear of the blast areas. |