[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: J1 Range and plumes at the Massachusetts Military Reservation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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U.S. EPA Region 1
May 31, 2011
EPA Reaches Cleanup Decision for J1 Range and Groundwater Plumes at  
Camp Edwards

(Boston, Mass. – May 31, 2011) – As efforts to clean up and protect  
Cape Cod's drinking water continue, the EPA and the Commonwealth of  
Massachusetts have reached another cleanup decision regarding a  
former military training and contractor testing area at Camp Edwards  
on the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR). This decision marks  
a final cleanup strategy for MMR’s J1 Range and its two affiliated  
“northern and southern” groundwater plumes. Three plumes and multiple  
soil areas on Camp Edwards await final cleanup decisions.

MMR is a 22,000-acre property that has been used for military  
training activities since 1911. The base is also located over a sole  
source aquifer that provides drinking water for residents of Cape  
Cod. Two environmental cleanup programs (one implemented by the Army,  
the other by the Air Force), are addressing the areas of soil and  
groundwater contamination that have resulted from fuel spills and  
other past activities on site. The U.S. Air Force is addressing  
contamination from activity at the Otis Air Force Base in the  
southern portion of MMR under the Federal Superfund Program. The U.S.  
Army is addressing contamination at Camp Edwards in the northern  
portion of MMR under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act.  
Both cleanup programs are progressing with oversight from the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Massachusetts  
Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ 
ed524b82e3040b36852578a100578a21?OpenDocument

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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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