[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: "Navy declines more Nomans Land [MA] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy declines more Nomans Land cleanup
Site will be managed with signage,  monitoring after decades of bombing.

By Rich Saltzberg 
Martha’s Vineyard Times (MA)
February 1, 20221

The U.S. Navy has made a determination on which of three Nomans Land management and environmental mitigation efforts it will pursue. 

Back in 2020, as part of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) process, the Navy provided a public webinar and comment period on the three options: a $31 million cleanup, an $11 million monitoring and awareness program, or a $0 do nothing stance. The Navy has opted for the $11 million program for Nomans Land. The island is just under three miles off the Vineyard and has an area of a little over 600 acres. Nomans Land is part of the Town of Chilmark but is owned by the federal government. It has no human inhabitants. 

For roughly a half century the Navy, and reportedly also the Air Force, pulverized the tiny island for target practice. The Navy has made prior efforts to cleanup munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) on the island, its shores, and nearby waters. The danger posed by UXO appears to be the core reason the island is a no-go area. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mvtimes.com/2022/02/01/navy-declines-nomans-land-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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