2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 Apr 2006 05:02:15 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Natick Labs (MA)/Lake Cochituate
 
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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