[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts Military Reservation - sampling for RDX under private roads

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sandwich urges use of test wells

By GEORGE BRENNAN
Cape Cod Times (MA)
April 21, 2006

FORESTDALE - Military officials will enlist the help of voters to test 
for pollution underneath six private roads bordering the Massachusetts 
Military Reservation.

At town meeting May 1, voters will be asked to accept the roads as 
public ways, giving selectmen the authority to grant easements for test 
wells.

It's part of the Army Impact Area Groundwater Study Program's efforts to 
determine whether contaminants from explosives previously used on the 
base have migrated into the nearby neighborhood's groundwater, 
spokeswoman Kris Curley said.

Last summer, water samples at the base boundary tested positive for 
Royal Demolition Explosives, or RDX, up to 290 parts per billion.

...

For the entire aricle, see
 http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/sandwichurges21.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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