[CPEO-MEF] Needham Nike site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Panel: Critics were ignored
Wants more testing of former Nike site

By Christina Pazzanese
Boston Globe 
December 26, 2004

With trucks poised to begin dumping dirt on the former Nike missile site
in less than a month, leaders of Needham's Conservation Commission
publicly blasted top town and school officials last week for their
handling of repeated calls for more environmental testing.

In a Dec. 20 letter sent to School Committee chairman Gary C. Crossen,
selectmen chairman James G. Healy, and John P. Connelly, chairman of the
Permanent Public Building Committee, commission co-chairman Roy A.
Cramer said: "[R]esponsible officials should have been more careful and
thorough in determining the appropriate course of action. The general
impression that many residents now have is that the issue was not
carefully thought out or that other non-environmental agendas affected
the process."

Carol Donnelly, a leader of Concerned Neighbors for a Safe Nike Site,
said, "We agree. They know something bad is down there and they don't
want to remediate it." The group has been critical of town and school
leaders for not conducting more thorough environmental tests before
declaring the site free from toxic hazards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/12/26/panel_critics_were_ignored/

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