2025-2026 Camp Bonneville Priorities

Priorities and approximate timelines

  • Create use agreements with Regional Special Weapons and Tactical (SWAT) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
    • Quarter 2, 2026: Draft SWAT agreement sent to SWAT agencies
    • Quarter 2, 2026: Discussion with Clark County Council about ATF and MEDU
  • Support Washington State Department of Ecology in finalizing the draft periodic review for presentation to the community
    • Quarter 4, 2025: Draft report published, Ecology open house
    • Quarter 1, 2026: Ecology will finalize the periodic review
    • The Washington State Department of Ecology has issued the Draft First Periodic Review report, available on their website. A public comment period was open between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2025. Ecology also held an open house on Dec. 10 about the periodic review. Please visit Ecology’s website for additional information.
    • Update, March 2026: Ecology issued a formal Response to Comments document for comments received on the periodic review as well as an updated and finalized periodic review and public participation plan document. You can access the final periodic review on Ecology's website.
  • Maintain and repair fence
    • Ongoing; as of December 2025, the county has completed clearance and/or maintenance on 3.5 miles of fence line since August, including the property perimeter fence line and CITA fence line.
    • Update March 2026: Clark County Sheriff's Office has been conducting perimeter patrols around Camp Bonneville, helping Public Works identify areas where the fence and/or roadway has been blocked or damaged.
  • Repair damaged signage along fence lines
    • Ongoing, concurrent with ongoing fence maintenance and repair; warning signs are required every 50 feet along the fence line, including the perimeter fence line and the fence line along the Central Impact Target Area. Click here to see an example of the signs being installed.
    • Update March 2026: Additional larger warning signs have been ordered to replace damaged signs observed along the Central Impact Target Area fence line.
  • Open bid for road maintenance pilot project, for construction services for maintenance of several miles of general access roads at Camp Bonneville
    • Quarter 3, 2025 (notice to contractors)
    • Update, September 2025: Contractor Swofford Excavating will be blading and regrading multiple existing forest road locations along the south side of the property. Work will also include culvert replacements. Work is expected to begin in September and be completed by quarter 4.
    • Update, December 2025: Swofford Excavating will return in Q2 2026, to finish the work specified in the contract.
  • Demolish additional barracks and auxiliary buildings within the Camp Killpack cantonment. As with demolition completed in the fourth quarter of 2025, these buildings were selected for demolition based on their poor condition.
    • Quarter 3, 2026
  • Plan shaded fuel break: mapping and layout of shaded fuel break units prioritizing portions of west, north, and south boundaries for brush removal and timber sale
    • Quarter 4, 2025
    • Update, June 2025: proposals received in May 2025 are currently being evaluated
    • Update, September 2025: A contractor has been selected. Work will be completed in Quarter 4, 2025 and Quarter 1, 2026. Public Works will present this information to council in a work session sometime in Quarter 2, 2026.
  • Support Washington Department of Ecology in finalizing the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study for Remedial Action Unit 2c or Landfill 4/Sitewide Groundwater
    • Quarter 2 and 3, 2026
  • Install signage along Central Valley Floor roads, informing public about past military use of Camp Bonneville
  • Replace and improve gates restricting access into the Central Impact Target Area (CITA), and install additional gates outside the CITA to provide a 500' buffer to further restrict access to the CITA
  • Continue upgrades to site security with installation of additional onsite cameras in select locations.
    • Quarter 3, 2026
  • Develop site-specific health and safety plan, institutional control manual, and long-term operations and maintenance plan for Camp Bonneville
    • Quarter 4, 2025
    • Update, September 2025: A draft of a site-specific health and safety plan has been developed, but will continue to be updated. The long-term operations and maintenance plan is currently in development.
    • Update March 2026: Updated site-specific health and safety has been developed and is in finalization process with the county.
  • Open bid for RAU 2C groundwater monitoring services (RFP 945). The current contract for groundwater monitoring services, held by Apex (formerly PBS) ends on June 30, 2026.
    • Q1 2026: RFP 945 (Camp Bonneville RAU 2C Quarterly Groundwater Monitoring Program) issued.
    • Q2 2026: Contractor selection and negotiations
    • Q3 2026: Contract begins on July 1, 2026