[CPEO-MEF] Ashumet Valley plume, Massachusetts Military Reservation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Solvent-heavy plume draws debate

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
June 15, 2007

FALMOUTH — It's a choice between diluting the pollution until it is safe 
to drink, or spending millions to make the water cleaner, sooner.

Air Force and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials have 
reached a stalemate in the debate over the Ashumet Valley solvent plume, 
which flows under Falmouth and wells in the Backus River.

If the Air Force and the EPA cannot reach an agreement after the close 
of a public comment period that ends July 13, the debate could go into 
high-level arbitration, which could take months to resolve, EPA 
officials said at a public meeting this week.

Virginia Valiela, a retired Falmouth selectmen and longtime safe water 
advocate, has vowed to raise the issue with town officials in the coming 
weeks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070615/NEWS/706150322

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