[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Camp Edwards (MA) Central Impact Area cleanup plans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted Cape Cod military base hits cleanup milestone

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 21, 2011

CAMP EDWARDS - Military and environmental regulators have agreed on a  
plan to clean up an area of the Upper Cape military base once used  
for weapons testing and artillery training.

A 30-day public comment period begins Monday and a public hearing is  
scheduled for Wednesday to discuss two plans proposed by the Army's  
Impact Area Groundwater Study Program for an area known as the  
Central Impact Area. One plan deals with removing some of the  
remaining sources of the contamination, and the other proposes to  
pump and clean a groundwater plume polluted with perchlorate and  
Royal Demolition Explosive, also known as RDX.

The plans mark a major milestone in the massive cleanup at the  
Massachusetts Military Reservation because the proposals represent a  
way to deal with the last, biggest area of contamination. The  
military concentrated its initial efforts on finding solutions to  
begin the cleanup of contamination migrating outside the base  
boundaries into neighborhoods in Falmouth, Sandwich, Bourne and Mashpee.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110721/NEWS/ 
107210331/-1/NEWSMAP


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Lenny Siegel
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