[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Massachusetts Military Reservation milestone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base cleanup achieves milestone

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times
November 8, 2010

FALMOUTH - The federal cleanup of pollution in and around the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation reached a significant milestone last 
week when workers started dismantling some wells no longer needed in the 
Hatchville section of town.

The Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment started work 
Wednesday removing 204 shallow extraction well points installed more 
than a decade ago, spokesman Doug Karson said. The wells were set up to 
prevent ethylene dibromide (EDB), an additive found in aviation fuel, 
from upwelling into the Coonamessett River and bog areas south of 
Hatchville Road, he said.

The pollution is from what is known as Fuel Spill 28 - one of several 
contaminated plumes at the base that extends beyond the Upper Cape 
base's boundaries.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101108/NEWS/11080309

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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