[CPEO-MEF] Otis (MA) MTBE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coast Guard cleared

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
September 20, 2006

OTIS AIR BASE - The Coast Guard is off the hook for a high-level 
detection of a fuel additive found in the Otis groundwater.

An investigation of the 1,430-parts-per-billion detection of methyl 
tert-butyl ether, or MTBE, determined it did not come from a nearby 
Coast Guard-operated gas station. There appears to be no large plume of 
the gasoline additive in the southwestern portion of the Upper Cape 
base, as originally feared.

But exactly who or what caused the contamination discovered underground 
near an abandoned school three years ago is unclear, according to state 
Department of Environmental Protection officials.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/coastguard20.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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