[CPEO-MEF] GROUNDWATER, MUNITIONS: Massachusetts Military Reservation update

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army continues massive base cleanup

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 10, 2011

Just about a year ago, a monitoring well near the Bourne boundary of  
the Massachusetts Military Reservation showed levels of perchlorate  
six times the limit set by the state for safe drinking water.

To the public, the discovery came out of nowhere, but officials from  
the Army's Impact Area Groundwater Study Program and environmental  
regulators say it demonstrates that appropriate safeguards are in  
place. They thought the plume from an area of Camp Edwards known as  
Demolition Area 1 was contained inside the base boundary, but the  
tests from monitoring wells proved otherwise.

Further study showed that a sliver of contaminated groundwater about  
the width of a tractor-trailer traveled underneath Route 28 to a  
neighborhood in the Pocasset Village of Bourne. Testing there in one  
neighborhood well, where the military had just gotten permission to  
sink a well, showed levels three times the acceptable limits.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111010/NEWS/ 
110100307/-1/NEWSMAP

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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