[CPEO-MEF] Cranberry gogs and Otis Air Base (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cranberry bog deal going sour

By STEPHANIE VOSK
Cape Cod Times (MA)
November 11, 2006

Cranberry bogs free of contamination should be a good thing, but in 
Mashpee it could mean less revenue for the town.

The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence has paid the town 
annual compensation since the late 1990s for berries from six cranberry 
bogs that were contaminated by pollution from Otis Air National Guard Base.

For the last growing season, the Air Force paid compensation of about 
$305,000, with 75 percent going to grower Brian Handy and the rest going 
to the town, according to Mashpee conservation agent Steve Solbo. The 
compensation deal is based on the fair market value of the last 
cranberry crop that was harvested from bogs, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/cranberrybog11.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>
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