2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:06:52 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] REUSE: Contamination at former Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)
 
Hazardous materials, possible unexploded munitions still a worry at former Brunswick air base

By Christopher Cousins
Bangor Daily News (ME)
September 28, 2012

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Among the legacies left behind at the now-closed Brunswick Naval Air Station, which is currently under redevelopment for commercial and public use, is pollution that lies in the soil and bedrock beneath the 3,200-acre base that could still be the focus of cleanup efforts decades from now.

Gasoline, jet fuel, hazardous waste and possibly the remnants of unexploded munitions, among other contaminants, lie in numerous sites on the former base itself, as well as in former Navy satellite sites in Harpswell and Topsham, according to officials from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Many of the sites have benefitted from decades of cleanup activities, which to date have resulted in more than 80 percent of the former Navy land being turned over for civilian use.

Since the Navy moved out in May of 2011, the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has received 1,700 acres of property and brought in 19 new businesses that have created 150 jobs with another 350 planned. The base, now called Brunswick Landing, is home to everything from Monlnlycke Health Care, a medical devices manufacturer, to a new campus associated with Southern Maine Community College, to aircraft manufacturer Kestrel Aviation. MRRA Executive Director Steve Levesque said the redevelopment effort is far ahead of projections hoped for when BNAS closed in 2005 and is progressing more rapidly than most other military facilities that closed at the same time.

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For the entire article, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/09/28/news/midcoast/hazardous- materials-possible-unexploded-munitions-still-a-worry-at-former- brunswick-air-base

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Lenny Siegel
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