[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, CONTRACTOR? New England Sand & Gravel, Framingham, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NE Sand & Gravel site still contaminated

By Dan McDonald
MetroWest Daily News (MA)
August 27, 2008

FRAMINGHAM —

More than 20 years after serving as a testing ground for military 
technology, the ground at the former New England Sand and Gravel site is 
still contaminated, according to a sample taken this summer.

The news comes as a developer hopes to one day turn the Saxonville 
parcel, located off Danforth Street, into a one-of-a-kind, 170-plus 
acre, 525-unit subdivision.

...

It is the Air Force, not Pulte, that is in charge of overseeing the 
cleanup of the site after less than two gallons of polychlorinated 
bihenyls leaked at the site while the military tried to develop a 
substance that could make a quick fix to bomb-damaged runways in 1986.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1657300819/NE-Sand-Gravel-site-still-contaminated

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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