[CPEO-MEF] Devens housing and UXO

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Devens housing awaits clearance on unexploded weaponry at Grand Road
DEC deliberates future need for taxation

By C. David Gordon
Groton Landmark (MA)
October 15, 2004

DEVENS -- MassDevelopment officials have said that delay of a plan to 
build new housing on land off Grant Road came about through the need to 
first implement new guidelines for affordable housing.

Another reason was voiced this week.

The Devens Enterprise Commission (DEC) learned from MassDevelopment Vice 
President for Community Relations Meg Delorier that the federal 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requiring further testing for 
unexploded ordnance (UXO) on a 130-acre site located within the Grant 
Road area where the housing project is to be located.

In the 1930's, the Grant Road area had been used as an impact area for a 
weapons firing range and the proposal to use it for residential housing 
triggered the requirement for testing.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.grotonlandmark.com/Stories/0,1413,107~5178~2469916,00.html

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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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