New treatment system for Massachusetts Military Reservation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Air Force to Unveil Treatment Proposal

CAPE COD TIMES
April 7, 2004

FALMOUTH - Air Force officials will meet with Falmouth residents tonight
to display construction lans for a $20 million system to clean four
underground plumes of contamination.

The meeting will take place at Ballymeade Country Club in Falmouth.

The treatment system will be the largest built to date on the base, said
Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence spokesman Doug Karson.

But officials still must complete negotiations with private land owners
before plans are final.

The plumes are moving through the aquifer from the southwest corner of
the Massachusetts Military Reservation. Air Force Center for
Environmental Excellence officials, who are running the cleanup program,
suspect the contamination comes from old fuel or chemicals spills on the base.

The plumes contain ethylene dibromide, an aviation fuel additive, and
perchloroethylene, and richloroethylene, both solvents, at levels above
federal and state safety standards.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/airforce7.htm



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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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