[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: West Gloucester (MA) small arms range

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Council orders police firing range closed

By Richard Gaines
Gloucester Daily Times (MA)
December 03, 2008 10:48 pm


The heavily used Police Department firing range, whose 16 year history 
at the edge of a West Gloucester reservoir is unregulated and almost 
entirely undocumented, has been ordered shut down by City Council.

...

"It just started," said Frontiero. "The effect on the watershed is 
basically unknown. Lead contamination is a huge issue," he added.

Max Schenk, a health department sanitarian, said he and conservation 
agent Nancy Ryder have inspected the site and found that the runoff from 
the area of the range does not feed back into the reservoir.

Schenk also said the Coast Guard had contracted to have the spent lead 
removed every two years. The department has agreed to write a management 
plan for the range, he added.

...

For the entirea article, see
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_338224810.html?keyword=topstory

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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
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