[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Army Corps looking for unexploded war ordnance in Bare Cove Park in Hingham" (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps looking for unexploded war ordnance in Bare Cove Park in Hingham


By Carol Britton Meyer 
Hingham Journal (MA)
August 10, 2017

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin a remedial investigation/feasibility study in September to assess potential environmental and human health impacts associated with past use of the former 991-acre Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot comprised of land and water in and surrounding the Weymouth Back River during World Wars I and II. The effort does not involve the entire parcel.

The property was transferred to the town in 1972 for use as parkland and became known as Bare Cove Park.

This is part of a national ongoing Corps effort to uncover any unexploded ordnance (military-related materials) in the ground or in the water.

The investigation is the next step following an ACE survey, assessment, and prioritization of all former defense sites.

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For the entire article, see
http://hingham.wickedlocal.com/news/20170810/army-corps-looking-for-unexploded-war-ordnance-in-bare-cove-park-in-hingham

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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