[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Camp Edwards (MA) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents query MMR on spreading plume

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
December 16, 2010

CAMP EDWARDS - Several residents, including one with a private well, 
showed up to a meeting of the Massachusetts Military Reservation Cleanup 
Team yesterday to ask about a contaminated plume that may be headed for 
their Pocasset neighborhood.

The Army Impact Area Groundwater Study Program detected levels of the 
contaminant, perchlorate, above state standards along the base boundary. 
The military has asked for permission from town leaders to do test wells 
along MacArthur Boulevard and eventually may do them in the Williams 
Avenue neighborhood.

Officials aren't worried about public health because homeowners in the 
area get their water from town water supplies.

But a homeowner on Williams Avenue said he has a private well on his 
property that's used for irrigation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101216/NEWS11/101219834

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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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