[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts Military Reservation "coming clean"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military base is coming clean

By Joe Burns
Upper Cape Codder (MA)
September 21, 2006

Part two in a series on changes coming to the Massachusetts Military 
Reservation

Twenty-eight years ago, Denis LeBlanc turned on the tap in the room of a 
Hatchville motel and found foaming water coming out of the faucet.

LeBlanc, a hydrogeologist, passed the information on to Falmouth 
officials, leading to the discovery that a town well was contaminated 
and that the source of that contamination was Otis Air National Guard 
base on the Massachusetts Military Reservation. That discovery was the 
start of a long and contentious process that led to the identification 
by the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence of 80 sources of 
contamination from chemical and fuel spills and other sources.

In 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency declared the base a Super 
Fund site, meaning that it was among the most polluted sites in the 
country. Compounding that designation were later discoveries of 
groundwater and soil contamination as the result of munitions 
destruction and disposal at Camp Edwards, the Massachusetts Army 
National Guard facility at MMR.

Today the base is on its way to becoming the standard for environmental 
excellence....


For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/bourne/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=577557

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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