[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Navy is ignoring its responsibility" at Nomans Land island, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy is ignoring its responsibility

Richard Hugus
Letter To the Editor
Martha’s Vineyard Times
September 9, 2020

The U.S. Navy is inviting comments on a “proposed remedial action plan” for Nomans Land, a 600-acre island three miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, part of the town of Chilmark. The “action” proposed is to do nothing further to clean up the pollution and unexploded ordnance remaining on the island, which the Navy used as a base and aircraft gun and bombing range from 1943 to 1996.

Back in February 2000, the Navy was arguing that it would not be able to do remediation work requested by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection because of the existence of an endangered plant species on the island. The Navy bombed and strafed Nomans for 53 years without showing concern for anything living on Nomans. Their sudden concern for an endangered plant was an obvious ploy to get out of its responsibility to clean up its mess.

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For the entire letter to the editor, see
https://www.mvtimes.com/2020/09/09/navy-ignoring-responsibility/

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





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