Re: [CPEO-IRF] Arsenic at/near former Ft. Devens (MA)

["Stella Bourassa" <Stellalogic@cfl.rr.com>]

I hope, in the spirit of accountability and responsibility,  health
assessments will be done in this community.  People who live on land with
a'natural' excessive amount of arsenic also have serious endroconology
issues-like diabetes.  Arsenic leaves 'this legacy' whether it's put there
by man or nature.  A google search of  "arsenic diabetes" is informative
regarding this matter.

Stella
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lenny Siegel" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: "Installation Reuse Forum" <Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:17 PM
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Arsenic at/near former Ft. Devens (MA)


> Arsenic tests show impact at Red Cove but not town wells
>
> By Don Eriksson
> Pepperell Free Press (MA)
> July 15, 2005
>
> DEVENS -- Biological laboratory data from sediment samples taken from
> the bottom of Plow Shop and Grove ponds indicate significant ecological
> impact to Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove from the arsenic present in
> groundwater and from Shepley Hill landfill, according to an
> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released to the Restoration
> Advisory Board (RAB).
>
> The data will become part of a final ecological risk assessment to be
> given the Army Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) team in September for
> its further action.
>
> Both ponds were formed by a series of dams installed in the 19th century
> that backed water up onto meadow land underlain by peat bogs. When BRAC
> work began in the early 1990s, the ponds generated interest because of
> potential contamination to the Ayer municipal water supply near Grove
Pond.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.pepperellfreepress.com/Stories/0,1413,109~5520~2966521,00.html
>
> -- 
>
>
> 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
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