[CPEO-MEF] Natick Labs (MA)/Lake Cochituate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund cleanup has gone well, but complications ahead

By Claudia Torrens
Metrowest Daily News (MA)
April 12, 2006

NATICK -- Ten years and $39.8 million later, the Natick Soldier Systems 
Center has reduced by 80 percent the concentration of contaminants in 
the groundwater of the Superfund site near Lake Cochituate.

The long and complicated cleanup -- which faces stages in which 
chemicals will be harder to remove -- could still take 20 more years and 
at least $20 million.

One of the problems of the operation is the fish contaminated with 
potentially carcinogenic polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, which some 
say pose a risk to the health of humans who eat them.

"It is literally, and morally, a crime to allow this to continue," said 
Marco Kaltofen, co-chairman of the Natick Labs Restoration Advisory 
Board, a committee overseeing the cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=127213
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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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