[CPEO-MEF] Lead bullets at Camp Edwards (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

National Guard wants lead ammunition again at Camp Edwards

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
May 16, 2007

Next week, the Massachusetts National Guard will ask for permission to 
once again fire lead bullets at Camp Edwards.

If federal Environmental Protection Agency officials approve the 
petition, they will reverse a decade-old ban on lead ammunition at the 
Upper Cape military base.

The request from the Guard comes on the heels of a military-funded 
report that found lead from millions of rounds of ammunition fired at 
Camp Edwards over 70 years has posed little threat to the drinking water 
supply that lies beneath the base.

Lifting the lead ban would pave the way for more training for the Guard, 
Coast Guard and local law enforcement — all of whom have expressed 
interest in using the ranges if lead ammo makes a comeback on the base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070516/NEWS/705160329/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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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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