[CPEO-MEF] RAB updated on environmental cleanup projects

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Massachusetts
HARVARD HILLSIDE
RAB updated on environmental cleanup projects
By C. David Gordon

DEVENS -- The Devens Restoration Advisory Board meeting this week
provided indications that environmental cleanup and restoration appear
well along on two of four remaining projects.
A third project has advanced almost to the point of proposed
remediation, while preliminary work continues to address the fourth,
most recently started, project.

Peter Kaselis, the BRAC Environmental Office's new technical project
manager, provided an update on environmental consulting firm Arcadis'
work at the former Army airfield, the site known as Area of
Contamination (AOC) 50.

This site requires cleanup of parachute-cleaning fluid released years
ago into groundwater to form a large plume of contamination moving from
near Route 2A to the Nashua River. There is also the remnant of another
plume that moved in the opposite direction, under the state road and
beneath private industrial land in Ayer.

Arcadis has submitted a draft "record of decision and responsiveness
summary," which the state Department of Environmental Protection and the
federal Environmental Protection Agency are now reviewing.

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