[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE, COMMUNITIES: Camp Edwards (MA) groundwater cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pocasset neighbors question base contamination

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 24, 2013

CAMP EDWARDS - Residents of a neighborhood in Pocasset say the  
military should do more to let people know about a plume of  
contamination from Joint Base Cape Cod.

At a meeting tonight of the Massachusetts Military Reservation  
Cleanup Team inside the base boundaries, about a half-dozen residents  
of the neighborhood near Lily Pond said the Army’s Impact Area  
Groundwater Study Program should do more outreach about a plan to  
clean the tainted groundwater.

"Coming to the base is very intimidating to people," said Barbara  
Sanders, a resident of the affected neighborhood. "Why isn't it out  
in Bourne? Why is it during a time when people are having supper?"

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130724/ 
NEWS11/130729794

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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
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