[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Watertown Arsenal (MA) PCB tests

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PCB tests of contaminated former Arsenal site may begin in spring


By Jen Thomas
Wicked Local Watertown (M A)
March 5, 2010

WATERTOWN - Another round of field studies on the contaminated former 
Arsenal site should begin by the spring, if all goes as planned.

During a Tuesday night stakeholders' meeting, representatives from the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - which owns the property at 670 Arsenal 
St. and is responsible for the site's cleanup - and a local 
environmental consulting firm told residents they hoped to begin testing 
for contamination by May 3.

MACTEC Engineering and Consulting will conduct soil and sediment testing 
to determine the extent of polychlorinated biphenyl - or PCB - 
contamination. The samples will also be tested for dioxin, a family of 
toxic environmental pollutants.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/x1944921591/PCB-tests-of-contaminated-former-Arsenal-site-may-begin-in-spring

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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