[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: New England Sand and Gravel (MA) - former test site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waltham firm linked to contamination at site

By Dan McDonald
The MetroWest Daily News (MA)
February 24, 2009

FRAMINGHAM —

A Waltham research company is linked with military testing gone awry 
that contaminated grounds of former New England Sand and Gravel site for 
more than two decades.

During the mid-1980s on a tract in the northeast part of town, 
Foster-Miller Inc. was a subcontractor charged with developing a 
substance that could quickly fix bombed-out runways, the U.S. Air Force 
said.

For at least the past decade, that land had been slated for a 
one-of-a-kind planned unit development, now known as Danforth Green, 
which called for 525 housing units to be built near the Wayland town line.

In 1986, Foster-Miller's task was to test the "mixing and dispensing 
equipment," according to the U.S. Air Force.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1739334362/Waltham-firm-linked-to-contamination-at-site

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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
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