The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says officials in Surf City two years ago approved a site between an elementary school and library to store old munitions found during a beach cleanup project.
Corps spokeswoman Susan Anderson tells The Press of Atlantic City that the site was OK'd by the mayor, council and public works director.
Mayor Leonard Connors tells the newspaper that the town approved a box to store the munitions, but not an eight-foot-high bunker with sandbag walls that now sits on the spot.
After complaints by local officials last week, the Corps agreed to close the site and hold any recovered munitions at the beach for daily removal.
The World War 1-era munitions are mostly six- to eight-inch-long fuses filled with gunpowder.
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