[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Watertown Arsenal (MA) site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated Arsenal site to be 'passive recreation,' says state

By Meghann Ackerman
Wicked Local Watertown
October 1, 2009

WATERTOWN - The Department of Conservation and Recreation has made 
public its plans for a contaminated site it will inherit from the Army 
Corps of Engineers, and had said it will stay active in the cleanup process.

Once polychlorinated biphenyl, commonly called PCBs, are cleaned from 
the nearly 12-acre parcel at 670 Arsenal St., DCR will take over the 
site for "passive recreation," DCR Deputy Chief Engineer Michael Misslin 
wrote in a Sept. 22 letter to the corps. Land set aside for passive 
recreation is usually undeveloped, as opposed to turning it into soccer 
fields or other spaces for "active" recreation.

DCR spokeswoman Wendy Fox said DCR would be meeting with the Army Corps 
and the state's Department of Environmental Protection in the next few 
weeks to discuss the cleanup process. Fox said it was too soon to know 
when DCR would get control of the Arsenal site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/lifestyle/health/x366035274/Contaminated-Arsenal-site-to-be-passive-recreation-says-state

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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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