[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Arsenal Street PCBs, Watertown, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

More PCBs found at arsenal site
Finding a setback for site cleanup

By Christina Pazzanese
Boston Globe (MA)
November 2, 2008

New environmental testing of property on Arsenal Street in Watertown 
once used by the Department of Defense to store nuclear waste indicates 
the land is more contaminated with PCBs than previously believed.

Consultants for the US Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the 
cleanup of the site across Greenough Boulevard from the Charles River, 
told town officials last week that tests done in July and August found 
higher levels of polychlorinated biphenyls than prior tests had shown.

"That surprised us," said David E. Heislein, project manager for MACTEC, 
a consulting firm.

Heislein said the contamination appears to be confined largely to the 
soil surface. Officials said that may make it easier to eventually 
remove the polluted dirt and convert the site to parkland.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/02/more_pcbs_found_at_arsenal_site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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