[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Watertown Arsenal (MA) GSA property

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean Up of Former Army Site Beginning Soon, Will be Turned into  
Recreation Land

Contamination will be removed from the GSA site, on Greenough  
Boulevard, and buildings will be torn down to make way for wetlands  
and passive recreation.

By Charlie Breitrose
Watertown Patch (MA)
November 20, 2012

Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed  
general plans for removing the last of the contamination from the  
former Army facility along Greenough Boulevard in Watertown on Monday  
night.

The project, which is being paid for out of the federal Superfund  
program [probably not - LS[, includes removal of PCB contaminated  
soil, demolishing old Army buildings and creation of a new wetland,  
said Michael Kunce, project manager with Charter Environmental, the  
contractor hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to oversee the  
cleanup.

Surveys found some "hot spots" for PCB contamination where there is  
more than 50 ppm of contamination was found in a former burn pit used  
to dispose of depleted uranium and other materials.

...

For the entire article, see
http://watertown.patch.com/articles/clean-up-of-former-army-site- 
beginning-soon-will-be-turned-into-recreation-land

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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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