[CPEO-IRF] Watertown Arsenal (MA) delisting

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund site to be de-listed

By Jillian Fennimore
Watertown TAB & Press (MA)
October 6, 2006

With a history of close to 200 years, the Army Materials Technology 
Laboratory Site has long caused concerns of its environmental impact and 
health hazards due to the Army's former use of the site.

Pesticides, metals and volatile organics were among some of the many 
contaminants found on the site in the past.

The site was placed on the National Priorities List in 1994 due to 
surface water and soil contamination, and Superfund investigations 
followed, working to clean the site marked by the federal government's 
program as one of the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.

But a proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to 
remove the final portion of the 48-acre site - within an 11-acre parcel 
of the Charles River near North Beacon Street - from the EPA National 
Priorities List after 12 years of contamination concerns and cleanup 
standards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/watertown/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=589588

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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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