[CPEO-MEF] Otis Air Base (MA) groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA faults Air Force cleanup in Falmouth

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 15, 2007

BOURNE - After months of debate, Air Force leaders and environmental 
regulators still cannot come to an agreement on the cleanup of a plume 
of groundwater contamination in Falmouth's Ashumet Valley.

Last night, Air Force officials offered two more options on how the 
solvent plume could be cleaned, but military leaders said they still 
believe the southernmost portion of the plume should be allowed to 
disperse naturally to safe levels.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials would like to see the 
military clean up more of the plume.

The parties will take the debate into arbitration if they can't agree 
between now and the end of a public comment period this summer.

''This is a large portion of this plume,” Lynne Jennings of the EPA said 
at the Plume Containment Team meeting last night. ''We don't think it 
makes sense to let it go.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/epafaults15.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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