[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) in bullet trap study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MMR range to test bullet trap systems

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
February 3, 2006

CAMP EDWARDS - Starting this spring, one of the firing ranges at the
Massachusetts Military Reservation will be part of a national study
testing bullet containment systems.

The systems - called bullet traps - will be the backstop to 10 firing
lanes at one of the Massachusetts National Guard's training ranges,
catching and holding bullets as they whiz through and past targets.

Bases around the country are testing five similar systems through a
program with the National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence in Virginia.

National Guard leaders have debated the idea of using bullet traps at
the Upper Cape base since 1997, when the Environmental Protection Agency
banned the use of lead bullets at the training facility, fearing that
lead from the bullets embedded in the soil would leach into the Cape's
drinking water supply.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/mmrrange3.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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