[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REUSE: Draining Joe English Pond, New Boston Air Force Station (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

3 SOPS removes dam, clears WWII bombing range


by Senior Airman Erica Picariello
50th Space Wing Public Affairs
U.S. Air Force
August 18, 2010

NEW BOSTON AIR FORCE STATION, N.H.  -- Contractors and members of New 
Boston Air Force Station, a geographically separated unit of the 50th 
Space Wing, have pumped approximately 70 million gallons of water out of 
Joe English Pond during a span of five days.

They're not even close to being done.

The Joe English Pond and Dam Removal Project, authorized by Congress' 
2002 National Defense Authorization Act, funded the clean-up of the 
retired bombing range allowing it to be used again for recreational 
purposes. From 2008 to 2009, 135 unexploded ordinances were found within 
New Boston's fence line.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.schriever.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123218240

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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