[CPEO-MEF] PCBs at Natick Labs (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army likely off the hook for PCB cleanup

By Jon Brodkin
MetroWest Daily News (MA)
May 5, 2005

NATICK -- It appears the Environmental Protection Agency will not force 
the U.S. Army to clean up PCB contamination in Lake Cochituate, members 
of an advisory board that oversees the Natick Labs Superfund site said 
this week.

The EPA has not ruled definitively, but it has accepted a risk 
assessment the Army is using to bolster its claim it should not have to 
perform a $2 million cleanup.

"Of course, we're disappointed that the Army isn't going to clean up the 
mess they made with PCBs," said Marco Kaltofen, an environmental 
scientist who is co-chairman of the Restoration Advisory Board. "At an 
absolute minimum, the town of Natick needs to post (warnings) so that no 
one, especially children, is eating the PCB-contaminated fish in Lake 
Cochituate."

...

Kaltofen and several other members of the RAB have criticized this 
assessment in written comments to the EPA, saying it underestimates 
human consumption of fish from the lake, especially among minorities, 
and did not test enough fish species for PCBs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=97882

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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
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