Army Fights Lake Cochituate Cleanup

I do not have a digital camera so I can't bring you the photographic proof right now, but Lake Cochituate (it and the army base are a block from my home) is heavily used by fishing people (and birds), swimmers, and boaters.

The Natick army labs are on North Lake. An official beach heavily used by Framingham residents is in Middle Lake, down-current from North Lake. There are popular fishing spots on North Lake at Pegan Cove, next to the labs; by the railroad tracks (and the new Middlesex Path, opposite the labs; and especially in a fragment of the Cochituate State Forest down-current of the Army labs. This is also where I swim (a vegan, I don't eat the fish).

I have been on the base not five years ago and seen the barrels marked hazardous stacked in a chain-link enclosure open to the elements. The Natick army labs (now officially the US Army Soldier Systems Center) does not have the greatest track record on environmental matters, at least when it comes to cleaning up toys when done playing, lest we forget the giant cockroaches. The army also delayed a long time before it made the agreed-upon payment to fund the drinking-water cleanup.

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