[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Weymouth (MA) wants more cleanup at former Naval Air Station

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Concerns linger over cleanup at old air base

By Emily Sweeney
Boston Globe
October 13, 2011

Weymouth officials say they have concerns about the environmental  
cleanup efforts at the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station, and  
have asked their congressmen to step in and make sure the job gets  
done right.

In a letter to the Massachusetts congressional delegation, the  
Weymouth Town Council expressed worries about how the Navy plans to  
deal with parts of the old air base, including three specific sites  
that might have been contaminated by harmful substances such as oil  
and solvents. The town officials are hoping their congressmen will  
put pressure on the Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency to  
clean up any polluted areas to the highest standard possible.

The Town Council’s concerns come at a critical time for the shuttered  
military facility, which is being redeveloped into a new "smart  
growth’" community known as SouthField. Construction of homes is  
underway in one section of the property, which spans 1,400 acres in  
Weymouth, Abington, and Rockland, and the first residents recently  
moved into completed homes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/10/13/ 
south_weymouth_air_base_cleanup_questioned/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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