[CPEO-BIF] REUSE: Contamination at former Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hazardous materials, possible unexploded munitions still a worry at  
former Brunswick air base
By Christopher Cousins
Bangor Daily News (ME)
September 28, 2012

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Among the legacies left behind at the now-closed  
Brunswick Naval Air Station, which is currently under redevelopment  
for commercial and public use, is pollution that lies in the soil and  
bedrock beneath the 3,200-acre base that could still be the focus of  
cleanup efforts decades from now.
Gasoline, jet fuel, hazardous waste and possibly the remnants of  
unexploded munitions, among other contaminants, lie in numerous sites  
on the former base itself, as well as in former Navy satellite sites  
in Harpswell and Topsham, according to officials from the Maine  
Department of Environmental Protection. Many of the sites have  
benefitted from decades of cleanup activities, which to date have  
resulted in more than 80 percent of the former Navy land being turned  
over for civilian use.
Since the Navy moved out in May of 2011, the Midcoast Regional  
Redevelopment Authority has received 1,700 acres of property and  
brought in 19 new businesses that have created 150 jobs with another  
350 planned. The base, now called Brunswick Landing, is home to  
everything from Monlnlycke Health Care, a medical devices  
manufacturer, to a new campus associated with Southern Maine  
Community College, to aircraft manufacturer Kestrel Aviation. MRRA  
Executive Director Steve Levesque said the redevelopment effort is  
far ahead of projections hoped for when BNAS closed in 2005 and is  
progressing more rapidly than most other military facilities that  
closed at the same time.
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For the entire article, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/09/28/news/midcoast/hazardous- 
materials-possible-unexploded-munitions-still-a-worry-at-former- 
brunswick-air-base
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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