[CPEO-MEF] SMALL ARMS: Border Patrol shooting range, Nogales, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan to clean up contaminated BP shooting range falls short, locals say

By Kendal Blust 
Nogales International (AZ)

March 9, 2018

Some local residents and developers aren’t satisfied with a remediation plan to address excessive levels of lead and other contaminants at a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection firing range in Nogales, saying the current plan appears to do just enough to get the Border Patrol off the hook without addressing soil pollutants on surrounding properties.

“(The Border Patrol’s) lease requires them to return the property to the condition it was in before they leased it. They can’t get out of that lease until they do so,” Matt Barr said during a public meeting Tuesday.

Barr’s family owns property adjacent to the former firing range.

“What we don’t want is for them to go in and clean that firing range, get out of their lease and then forget all about the lead (on other properties),” he said. “They’re going to leave it all for us to clean up.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/plan-to-clean-up-contaminated-bp-shooting-range-falls-short/article_f52edf56-231b-11e8-95a4-6b9f7a98779e.html

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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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