[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Navy plans Permeable Reactive Barrier at Bedford (MA) Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Aims to Chemically Degrade Contaminated Groundwater

by Mike Rosenberg
Bedford Citizen (MA)
May 30, 2023 

Contractors for the U.S. Navy have begun planning a $1 million project to deter a contaminated underground aquifer from potentially releasing vapors into residences east of the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant site on Hartwell Road.

The measure has an official label of “time-critical removal action,” under provisions of federal policy requiring response to “actual or potential exposures to nearby human populations, animals, or the food chain from hazardous substances or pollutants.”

The wooded area is on the east hillside of the 46-acre site, which for many years was the location for the design, fabrication, and testing of weapons equipment. The area has been inactive for more than 20 years. The Navy began investigating environmental issues in the 1980s; in 1984 new town wells were closed by pollutants traced to the site. Efforts to remove groundwater contaminants began in 1997.

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For the entire article, see
https://thebedfordcitizen.org/2023/05/navy-aims-to-chemically-degrade-contaminated-groundwater/

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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
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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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