[CPEO-IRF] Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA) school site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins cause concern over site of school on airbase

By Ed Baker
Weymouth News (MA)
May 3, 2006

A considerable amount of hazardous contaminants at the former South 
Weymouth Naval Air Station must be removed or entombed before the site 
can be fully developed by LNR Property Corporation, according to state 
and federal environmental officials.

Weymouth resident Peter Scannell said the pollutants pose potential 
health risks to children who will attend a school LNR plans to erect on 
Building 81, a defunct maintenance facility.

"Building 81 had to be destroyed because the air within it was deadly," 
Scannell said to Town Council on Monday. "A toxic solvent plume has 
built up deep beneath the soil after decades of being used to drain 
military cleaning solvents directly into the earth. This is one of the 
many Super Fund sites. What deplorable minds think Weymouth residents 
are willing to risk our 384-year reputation as a town able to care for 
all we have invited to live here."

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/weymouth/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=484902

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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