[CPEO-MEF] MMR (MA) cleans tungsten-tainted soil

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base targets tungsten

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
May 24, 2006

CAMP EDWARDS - Work crews this week began removing tons of 
tungsten-tainted soil from firing ranges at the Massachusetts Military 
Reservation to protect groundwater under the base.

Army investigators discovered earlier this spring that tungsten - part 
of the "environmentally friendly" bullet used at the base since 1999 - 
had washed off the ranges and into the aquifer under the facility. The 
aquifer is the Upper Cape's sole source of drinking water.

There are no federal or state guidelines for tungsten in drinking water, 
but the metal is being studied for possible toxic effects. Tungsten 
recently was found at high levels in the bodies of residents in a Nevada 
town stricken with an unexpectedly high number of childhood leukemia cases.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/basetargets24.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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