2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 22 Dec 2004 14:58:52 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards trash
 
State to military: Take out the trash

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
December 22, 2004

CAMP EDWARDS - Years of training at the Upper Cape military base has
left some unwanted items littering the ranges and woods of Camp Edwards.

One of the base's large firing ranges is home to a dilapidated trailer
and three boats.

In another part of the base, a decaying airplane fuselage lies in a
field, tagged with graffiti from military units and full of bullet
holes, possibly from hunters.

The large items may once have been used for military training, but have
had no known use, in some cases for decades.

Now state Environmental Officer Mark Begley has asked the military to
take out the trash.

The junk isn't a threat to the groundwater or the environment, but it
goes against the spirit of the state law that dictates how military
activity should mesh with environmental stewardship of the land on which
the base in located. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/stateto22.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
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