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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.
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Two nearly identical bills say that any time a proposed project on the base would destroy or clearcut 10 or more acres of forest land, a public hearing must be held in an Upper Cape town.
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Since August, the E.P.A. has been investigating whether activity on the proposed range could create a significant public health hazard by contaminating the drinking water that runs beneath the base.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years, officials with the Massachusetts Army National Guard are offering public tours of Camp Edwards to provide a closer look at the environment on Joint Base Cape Cod.
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The federal government is funding the construction of a nearly $8 million machine gun range on a military base northwest of Boston, adding fuel to local leaders’ insistence that another range is not needed on Joint Base Cape Cod.“We’ve got one range ready to break ground, which nullifies the need for a second one,” said Barnstable County Commissioner Mark Forest.
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As plans to build a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod move forward amid ongoing opposition, the federal government has just awarded a construction contract to build a similar range at a military training site in Worcester County.
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Commissioners and their lawyers claim the Massachusetts Army National Guard failed to comply with legal and permitting requirements during its decade-long pursuit of the range.
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In a March 24, 2021, email from General Christopher Faux to staffers for Congressman Bill Keating, the general said the machine gun range could not sustain the scrutiny of a more intensive environmental review, and if such a review were required, the Guard “will most likely lose the project and its funding.”
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The town Select Board called the meeting to allow officials with the Massachusetts Army National Guard and activists with the environmental group 350 Cape Cod to express their opposing points of view on the proposed eight-lane range.
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In a letter released Monday, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said they will evaluate whether the $11.5 million project has the potential to create “significant hazards to public health.”