Word: arsenale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military’s operations over the previous decades had left the Arsenal heavily contaminated with pollutants. At the time of the closure recommendation, the work to be done at the complex included cleaning the facilities and soil, decommissioning the remnants of a research reactor, and reclaiming portions of the Charles River...
...however, the Arsenal had become outdated. The U.S. Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended that it be closed, and the Department of Defense began a systematic reduction in the Arsenal’s activities. The challenge for Watertown, however, had just begun...
...Though the Arsenal was once as large as 130 acres, the Pentagon had reduced the site significantly. In 1968, it sold 55 acres to Watertown, which the town redeveloped into the Arsenal Mall and neighboring park. Due to the complexity of the cleanup effort, the EPA split what remained of the site in 1988 into three parts, one of which was the Arsenal buildings that Harvard now owns...
...Further complicating the situation was the fact that the Army’s first research reactor had been built at the Arsenal in 1960. Though operations ceased a decade later, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not formally shut down the reactor until...
...cleanup took nearly 10 years and $100 million from the federal government. According to a Watertown Arsenal Development Corporation (WADC) report, this represented “one of the most expensive projects of its kind...