[CPEO-MEF] Textron to pay millions for Massachusetts Military Reservation cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Textron to pay millions for base cleanup

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 2, 2007

BOSTON - The state and federal governments have reached an $8.75 million 
settlement with a military contractor accused of tainting the Cape's 
groundwater.

Under the settlement, filed in U.S. District Court yesterday, Textron 
Systems Corp. will pay a record $1 million to the state for natural 
resources damages, $5.6 million to the Army and $800,000 to the 
Environmental Protection Agency for cleanup costs, as well as other fees 
and in-kind services.

Textron used the so-called J-3 range at the Massachusetts Military 
Reservation to test munitions for three decades. The Army removed 3,500 
tons of soil tainted with perchlorate and explosives from the area and 
is currently cleaning up plumes of contaminated groundwater, the Upper 
Cape's main source of drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071002/NEWS/710020308

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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