[CPEO-IRF] Arsenic at/near former Ft. Devens (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arsenic tests show impact at Red Cove but not town wells

By Don Eriksson  
Pepperell Free Press (MA)
July 15, 2005 

DEVENS -- Biological laboratory data from sediment samples taken from
the bottom of Plow Shop and Grove ponds indicate significant ecological
impact to Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove from the arsenic present in
groundwater and from Shepley Hill landfill, according to an
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released to the Restoration
Advisory Board (RAB).

The data will become part of a final ecological risk assessment to be
given the Army Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) team in September for
its further action.

Both ponds were formed by a series of dams installed in the 19th century
that backed water up onto meadow land underlain by peat bogs. When BRAC
work began in the early 1990s, the ponds generated interest because of
potential contamination to the Ayer municipal water supply near Grove Pond.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pepperellfreepress.com/Stories/0,1413,109~5520~2966521,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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