[CPEO-MEF] Public participation at Nomans Land Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

>>From the Cape Cod Times, March 14, 2001

for the full article, see http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/groupurges14.htm

Group urges full review of Nomans Land cleanup

An environmental watchdog group argues unexploded ordnance still be on
the island, once used for bombing practice by the Navy.


By JAMES KINSELLA
STAFF WRITER

CHILMARK - An environmental group wants the Navy to open its review of
Nomans Land island to more public scrutiny.

  The Navy is forming a "Technical Review Committee" to review its
environmental cleanup of the 628-acre island, located 2.7 miles off the
southern coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Navy used the island for target
practice from 1943 to 196 and has been removing contaminated soil.

  The first meeting of the committee is this afternoon at the Menemsha
School in Chilmark. Representatives from the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe
and the towns of Chilmark and Aquinnah are scheduled to attend, but the
meeting is not open to the public.

  The Center for Public Environmental Oversight said the Navy should
review its environmental findings through a Restoration Advisory Board
that would be more inclusive than a technical committee and open its
business to the public. 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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