[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Edwards (MA) lead bullets

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firing of lead bullets expands on MMR ranges

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
February 7, 2009

CAMP EDWARDS - The National Guard can start firing lead bullets on two 
more small-arms ranges at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday approved a second 
pilot program to allow soldiers to train on the Kilo and Juliet ranges 
on the base. Both ranges have already been equipped with the STAPP 
system, a bullet trap that contains the lead and protects the soil and 
groundwater.

The EPA made the decision based on the success of another bullet trap 
system already in place on the Tango range at the base, EPA spokesman 
Jim Murphy said. That system, though there have been some problems with 
it collecting rain water, has worked nearly flawlessly, according to 
environmental and Guard officials.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090207/NEWS/902070307/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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Lenny Siegel
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