Mass Military Reservation

More Mass. Military Reservation News

• Army continues massive base cleanup - 10/10/2011

  Just about a year ago, a monitoring well near the Bourne boundary of the Massachusetts Military Reservation showed levels of perchlorate six times the limit set by the state for safe drinking water.

  
• Operation base cleanup - 10/9/2011

  In the late '90s, trust had been broken to the point where some activists were pushing for an end to the military's grip on the large chunk of real estate centered between Bourne, Falmouth, Sandwich...

  
• Public quiet at Upper Cape military base cleanup hearing - 7/28/2011

  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...

• Polluted Cape Cod military base hits cleanup milestone - 7/21/2011

  Military and environmental regulators have agreed on a plan to clean up an area of the Upper Cape military base once used for weapons testing and artillery training.

  
• EPA approves base cleanup strategy - 6/1/2011

  CAMP EDWARDS — Federal environmental officials have signed off on the final cleanup strategy for an explosives range used by defense contractors and soldiers at the Massachusetts Military...

• Camp Edwards seeks to boost bunnies - 5/21/2011

  CAMP EDWARDS — Environmental experts are hoping to pull more rabbits out of their hats using the magic of prescribed burns.

  
• Wind turbine operating on hallowed ground - 4/23/2011

  BOURNE — What could be better for environmentalists than the dedication of a wind turbine on Earth Day?

• Guard proposes expanded training at Camp Edwards - 4/9/2011

  CAMP EDWARDS — By this summer, Massachusetts National Guard soldiers could be doing most of their training closer to home, military leaders said this week.

• Danger lurks at former military sites on the Cape - 1/30/2011

  The U.S. military is stepping up efforts to find unexploded ordnance from Cape and Islands training missions conducted decades ago.

  
• Toxic plume migrates off Upper Cape base - 12/14/2010

  A groundwater plume with levels of perchlorate that exceed state guidelines has migrated outside the boundary of the Massachusetts Military Reservation in Bourne, but poses no public health threat, a...