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A meeting marked the first discussion by a local governing body of the Environmental Protection Agency draft findings. The Barnstable County Commission plans to vote on a statement formally supporting the EPA's findings at its next meeting. That will be on May 24, the same day the EPA will hold a hearing for members of the public who want to comment on the draft report.
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“[We] will provide a robust response during the public comment period,” the Massachusetts National Guard said in a statement. “The Massachusetts National Guard remains deeply committed to upholding environmental protections while providing our personnel with a range that serves our complex training needs and enhances soldier readiness.”
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For the last 20 months, the EPA has conducted an “exhaustive” scientific review of the Massachusetts Army National Guard’s design and operational plans for the proposed site. The agency’s scientists specifically studied potential impacts to the Sagamore Lens, the aquifer that provides Upper Cape towns with nearly all their drinking water.
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For the past two-and-a-half years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard and local opponents have been locked in battle over whether a machine gun range should be built at Joint Base Cape Cod. We traveled with the Guard to their training range in Vermont to see and hear what the future may bring to the Cape.
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Few people outside of the military will sleep in an army barracks, pass through machine gun training, or stand within feet of one of the military's deadliest weapons as it's fired. In this audio journal, CAI reporter Eve Zuckoff shares the experience of traveling north to Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, to get a closer look at the people, drills, and weaponry that could come to a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod.
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Take a photo tour of the machine gun range at Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, where Massachusetts Army National Guard currently go to train on the big .50 caliber machine gun. The Guard wants to build a comparable range on Cape Cod.
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Officials say tours offer the community an opportunity to see where a controversial machine gun range might be placed, learn about the Guard’s water protection and habitat conservation work, and to ask questions about base activities, specifically on Camp Edwards.
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This week: Barnstable County can’t agree on how to spend $41 million. A long-awaited report on the Cape’s machine gun range will be awaited quite a bit longer. And “open space vs. affordable housing”: should they really be opponents?
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A spokesperson for the federal agency said the report, called a “Sole Source Aquifer Review,” was expected to be released this spring, but the EPA now anticipates it will release a draft by the end of the calendar year.
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By creating The Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve in 2002, the state protected two-thirds of the base as conservation land, dedicating the area to the protection of water and wildlife habitat. Military training is allowed as long as it’s “compatible” with that conservation goal, but there’s debate over what the word really means.