[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Former Brunswick Naval Air Station, ME

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental cleanup underway at BNAS

Amber Cronin
The Forecaster (ME)
August 10, 2012

BRUNSWICK - After nearly 70 years as a military base, there are  
several significant environmental concerns being cleaned up at the  
former Brunswick Naval Air Station (now known as Brunswick Landing).

"It's been a military institution for almost 70 years and part of  
that type of operation is there's always some sort of environmental  
contaminants (involved)," said Steve Levesque, Mid-Coast Regional  
Redevelopment Authority (MRRA). "It's common in all military  
institutions and big industrial sites. Disposal methods in the 1940s,  
50s and 60s were a lot different than after that."

According to Paul Burgio, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)  
environmental coordinator, the U.S. Navy is actively addressing all  
of the environmental problems on the base in order to convey the land  
to MRRA.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theforecaster.net/news/print/2012/08/10/environmental- 
cleanup-underway-bnas/131769

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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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