Ft. Devens Housing Contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Boards review Salerno Circle analysis plans

By M.E. Jones  
Ayer Public Spirit (MA)
July 7, 2004 

HARVARD - Three members of the Devens Focus Group (DFG) discussed its
next assignment at the board's meeting last week. Taken from a list of
five focus areas selectmen suggested, the members said the group has
decided to zero in on Salerno Circle. 

"We agree...this is a hot topic," DFG Chairman Richard Maiore told selectmen.

Salerno Circle was one of many military housing areas at the former Fort
Devens. While other, more substantial residences and buildings on the
sprawling enclave have been rehabilitated, reused, rented or sold since
MassDevelopment took over, these basic, barracks-like duplex ranch homes
were not. Nor were they razed because the foundations ? permeated with
pesticides when they were built ? are contaminated. 

That leaves an abandoned area of derelict houses with toxic soil
underneath, standing on a hill that is part of a "high- to
moderate-yield aquifer" that underlies a substantial portion of the
Devens area. According to Selectman William Ashe, who serves on the
Devens Open Space Committee and has been a watch dog of environmental
issues since the base closed, a nearby well yields 1.5 million gallons
of drinking water per day. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.ayerpublicspirit.com/Stories/0,1413,110~5678~2257650,00.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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