[CPEO-MEF] "Find the Lead" at MMR (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Find the lead

Editorial
Cape Cod Times (MA)
December 21, 2006

Last of two parts.

Now that the tungsten-nylon bullet is out of the question as an 
environmentally friendly ammunition, Army officials want to resume 
firing lead bullets at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

Not so fast.

In May 1997, the EPA banned the use of live explosives, propellants, 
flares and lead bullets at the MMR because they threatened the Upper 
Cape's primary source of drinking water.

At the time, the EPA also ordered the military to quantify the level of 
pollution from decades of firing lead-based munitions at the base. After 
all, prior to 1997, military and law enforcement personnel had fired 
about 1.8 million rounds into soil berms at Camp Edwards each year. A 
single firing range contained an estimated 6 tons of lead.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/commentary/editorials/2006/12/find_the_lead.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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