[CPEO-IRF] Former Watertown Arsenal (MA) and the Charles River

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army: Pollution water under bridge

By Dan Atkinson
Watertown TAB & Press (MA)
May 20, 2005

The former Army Arsenal has polluted the Charles River no more than 
everybody else has, and should not have to clean the river up further, 
according to a proposal released by the Army and disputed by many 
Watertown citizens.

After several years of studying the sediment on the river's bed, the 
Army found the chemicals drained into the river from the Arsenal created 
"no unacceptable ecological risk" to humans and animals. Although the 
water and sediment closest to the Arsenal does have the potential for 
ecological risk, the risk is "indistinguishable" from that throughout 
the lower Charles River basin, the report said.

The Arsenal, located in the East End of town between Arsenal and North 
Beacon streets, was a storage and research facility for the Army for 
more than 150 years, holding everything from cartridges to cannonballs 
to nuclear material before being shut down in 1970. It has since been 
redeveloped into a mall, a medical building and an office complex, 
Arsenal on the Charles, which is owned by Harvard University.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/watertown/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=250

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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