[CPEO-MEF] MMR (MA) Commission considered success

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harmony supplants hostility in cleanup
A three-year-old law balancing environmental and military needs at the 
Upper Cape base gets positive reviews.

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 16, 2005

CAMP EDWARDS - Three years ago this month, when then-Gov. Jane Swift 
signed legislation to protect the habitat on the Massachusetts Military 
Reservation and the water below it, some said it marked a new era of 
cooperation between locals and the military.

Today, state and National Guard officials say the legislation - and the 
Environmental Management Commission it created - has worked well to give 
Cape residents better insight into what happens at the Upper Cape base.

That access has allowed state environmental officials and Cape residents 
to have their say about issues at Camp Edwards, where several areas of 
pollution from explosives have been found on the former artillery impact 
area since the late 1990s.

And they say the military is listening to their concerns.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/harmonysupplants16.htm

--
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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