[CPEO-MEF] Camp Edwards (MA) bullet trap

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Guard floats lead balloon

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
April 21, 2007

CAMP EDWARDS - Swedish inventor Gerth Moberg stood at the edge of the 
Tango rifle range, pointing at a tiny smudge on the rubber bullet-trap 
system.

The pinprick-sized hole, almost imperceptible, was the spot where a lead 
round pushed its way into Moberg's rubber contraption, to be trapped and 
kept away from the Cape's fragile environment.

Yesterday, for the first time since the bullet trap was installed at 
Camp Edwards nearly a year ago, about a dozen Massachusetts National 
Guard soldiers tested the new system.

Guard leaders will use the information gathered to help create a 
pollution-prevention plan for the range, which will be designed to stop 
any lead contamination from spreading to the Cape's drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/guardfloats21.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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