2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, PERCHLORATE: Camp Edwards (MA) public meeting
 
Public quiet at Upper Cape military base cleanup hearing

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 28, 2011

A public hearing Wednesday night aimed at getting public feedback on the cleanup of the so-called Central Impact Area at the Massachusetts Military Reservation drew less than a handful of people who weren't attending in an official capacity.

Far from the contentious early days of the base cleanup a little more than a decade ago that sometimes resulted in shouting and fistfights at similar public meetings, Wednesday night's session turned into an informal discussion after a brief overview of the options that didn't even draw a single official public comment.

"People feel like it's being taken care of," Lynne Jennings, team leader for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said of the apparent lack of concern in the community about the cleanup effort. Now that most Upper Cape residents are on public drinking water supplies, there are fewer worries, she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110728/NEWS/ 107280319/-1/NEWS

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