[CPEO-BIF] Hanover [Massachusetts] residents still waiting for state to act on contamination cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanover residents still waiting for state to act on contamination  
cleanup

By Fred Hanson
Quincy Patriot Ledger (MA)
July 15, 2013

HANOVER - Eight months after state environmental officials assured  
concerned residents that they were working on a plan to clean up a  
high-priority contamination site, there is still no plan or timeline  
for the cleanup.

"Our goal of reporting results to the public was optimistic," said  
Joseph Ferson, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental  
Protection. "But we are making substantial progress on settlement  
negotiations."

In November, state officials told nearly 100 residents at a forum  
that they were in negotiations with the polluters and zeroing in on a  
cleanup strategy for the 240-acre site of an old fireworks and  
munitions plant in the southwest corner of town.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/hanover/news/x273436333/Hanover-residents- 
still-waiting-for-state-to-act-on-contamination-cleanup

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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