[CPEO-MEF] Cam Edwards (MA) tungsten

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water tests for tungsten stump labs

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
November 24, 2006

As Army scientists and state environmental regulators test groundwater 
under Camp Edwards for tungsten bullet contamination, they also face a 
test of their own.

"There is not a standard cookbook procedure for how to test for 
tungsten," Benjamin Gregson of the Army Groundwater Study Program at 
Camp Edwards said this week.

The Army used tungsten bullets at the base in place of lead ammunition 
from 1999 to 2006. Although the Army introduced the tungsten bullets as 
safe "green ammunition," the discovery of tungsten in Camp Edwards 
groundwater prompted Gov. Mitt Romney to suspend use of tungsten bullets 
at the base.

Federal regulators are now reviewing tungsten's toxicity.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/watertests24.htm

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