It has taken far too much time, but it still remains good news that the military is now moving seriously to clean up areas of Waikane Valley on O'ahu's Windward side that had long been used for live-fire training exercises.

As described by Windward O'ahu Writer Eloise Aguiar, the plan continues to fall short of what was promised when the military leased the lush, jungle-like property for training during World War II.

The promise was that when the site was no longer needed for training, it would be restored and all dangerous unexploded ordnance and other materials would be removed.

And indeed, a cleanup was started but was never completed for cost reasons.

Now, the military says, some 874 acres of the former training site are eligible for cleanup under a new program called the Defense Environmental Restoration Program.

But another 187 acres, formerly owned by the Kamaka family, will not be cleaned up. That parcel has been fenced off and condemned.

Military officials say the site is too cluttered with dangerous unexploded ordnance to risk a cleanup, let alone other uses such as training or farming.