[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, COMMUNITIES: Former South Weymouth Naval Air Station (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Weymouth base cleanup gets advocacy group review

By Ed Baker
Weymouth News (MA)
November 8, 2010

Weymouth - Groundwater at the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station 
will probably remain unfit for human consumption, but could be used to 
water an eventual 18-hole golf course on the site.

The Advocates of Rockland, Abington, Weymouth, and Hingham (ARAWH) 
reviewed a summary of an ongoing cleanup of pollutants at the base by 
the Navy from Cambridge Environmental consultant Steve Zemba on Nov. 4.

...

Some of the concerns include “vapor intrusion” or the release of 
volatile organic compounds in the soils and groundwater near a former 
vehicle storage site (Building 81) and an aircraft maintenance site. 
(Building 81)


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/weymouth/news/x742803876/Weymouth-base-cleanup-gets-advocacy-group-review

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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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