[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) lead ammo

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Leaders say lead ban can be lifted

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 1, 2007

FALMOUTH - The road to firing lead ammunition again at Camp Edwards is 
clear.

But Massachusetts National Guard leaders must clean up some tainted soil 
and institute environmental safeguards on the firing ranges before a 
1997 ban on lead ammunition can be lifted this summer, environmental and 
military leaders said at a public hearing last night.

After a decade of disagreement about whether lead ammunition from ranges 
could taint the Cape's drinking water aquifer, environmental and 
military officials for the first time agree that lead ammunition can be 
used at Camp Edwards in a way that will not threaten water supplies.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/leaderssay1.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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