NEWS RELEASE
2006-1 MASSACHUSETTS
MILITARY RESERVATION, Cape Cod, Mass. —
As
part of the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence’s (AFCEE) Southwest Plumes
Treatment Construction Project, AFCEE would like to announce upcoming traffic changes for
Hatchville residents and users of Boxberry Hill Road.
Starting
March 27, 2006, paving of Boxberry Hill Road, from Route 151 to Hatchville Road, will
begin and continue for approximately two weeks. Roads
will be open to local residents and a police officer will be on-site to direct traffic. This work schedule is dependent on weather
conditions. To avoid traffic delays,
non-local traffic should seek an alternative route. Typically, paving activities begin at
8:00 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. with a half-hour setup and breakdown time. All equipment will be secured at the end of each
workday. In
the fall of 2005, AFCEE temporarily paved over portions of Boxberry Hill Road where
underground pipelines were installed. These
pipelines carry contaminated groundwater from an extraction well along Boxberry Hill Road
to a treatment plant on the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR). Pipelines also carry clean, treated water from the
plant to two reinjection wells located along Boxberry Hill Road. The reinjection wells return the clean water to
the groundwater aquifer. For more information, please call Mr. Doug Karson, AFCEE Community Involvement
Lead at 508-968-4678 ext.2. You can also get
updated construction information at our website: http://www.mmr.org/construction/groundconstproj.htm
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