[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CONTRACTORS: "Navy Works to Deter Abandoned Building Access at [Bedford, MA Navy Plant]"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Works to Deter Abandoned Building Access at Superfund Site

By Mike Rosenberg
Bedford Citizen (MA)
December 12, 2022   

As protracted environmental cleanup continues, the U.S. Navy – owner of contaminated acreage on the north side of Hartwell Road – is taking steps to better secure abandoned buildings from unauthorized access.

Steve Passafaro, a Navy engineering consultant from a New Jersey firm, told the Restoration Advisory Board at a meeting last week that since Thanksgiving, first-floor doors in buildings at the former Naval Weapons Industrial Research Plant have been welded and windows securely boarded.

He added, “We upgraded the monitoring service and because the camera system has a speaker, we have audible warnings. The voice message broadcast recognizes trespassing and advises about a follow-up call to police.”

The enhanced steps were among the few new items emanating from the annual meeting, which addressed a tract designated a hazardous waste area by the federal law known as the Superfund.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.thebedfordcitizen.org/2022/12/navy-works-to-deter-abandoned-building-access-at-superfund-site/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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