[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GUARD: Public hearing on proposed machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Guard officials seek revisions to critical EPA report on machine gun range at public hearing

By Eve Zuckoff
Cape and Islands Public Radio (MA)
May 25, 2023 

High-ranking officials from the Massachusetts Army National Guard last night pushed back against the Environmental Protection Agency's draft finding that a proposed machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod could contaminate the region’s drinking water.

Colonel John Bagaglio, garrison commander of Camp Edwards, the base’s main training facility, told a public hearing that the Guard hopes to work collaboratively with the EPA to resolve concerns and allow work on the 138-acre gun range to proceed.

But local residents used the hearing at the Sandwich Center for Active Living to endorse the EPA’s draft findings and denounce the Guard’s plan, calling it variously “reckless,” “unacceptable,” “ill-conceived,” and “a nightmare.”

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For the entire story, see
https://www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2023-05-25/guard-officials-seek-revisions-to-critical-epa-report-on-machine-gun-range-at-public-hearing

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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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