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Tobmn of <br /> 16 GREAT NECK ROAD NORTH <br /> %,SMASHPEE. MA 02649 <br /> 4ecE co PR-OCLAMAT1.ON <br /> 'W1fEREAS, 2Tiz towns of Mashpee, Bourne, Falmouth, and Sandwich are losing eight miffion <br /> gallons of drinkable water A DAA'due to spreading groundwater poflution from the <br /> Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMRj; and <br /> WEREAS, ?Fie communities and the Department of Defense have developed a Plume Containment <br /> Plan to halt the migration of the seven worst areas of poflution; and <br /> `WXER-EAS, Sherri Goodman, the Deputy Undzrsecretary for Defense (Environmental Security)has <br /> declared the Containment Plan a model far the nation, and has already funded the <br /> design, and is now budgeting $63 milCion to begin construction of the containment <br /> system in 1996 and continue the clean-up efforts at MgdR- and <br /> WHEREAS; The House Subcommittee on National Security and the Mouse Appropriations <br /> Committee have entertained proposals to divert at feast $2o0 md4on from the Defense <br /> Environmental Restoration Account (DERA) -- a 1296 reduction in funding for <br /> funding for environmental clean-up; and <br /> NOW, <br /> WER,EFOR�; We, the Board of Sefectmen of Mashpee, do hereby proclaim lune 12th through ,une <br /> 18th as <br /> MMR, PLUME CONTAINMENT %PEEK <br /> AND FURTHER- urge every single household in Mashpee to write to the House Appropriation <br /> Committee protesting the cut in DERE funding, and to Governor'William °Weld, asking him to make his <br /> voice heard on our behlf in 'Washington. <br /> IN WITNESS THEREFORE, We have hereunto set our hands and caused the OFFICIAL Seal of the <br /> Town of Mashpee to be affixed this 12th day of lune, 1995. <br /> James Vaccaro, Chairman Nancy J. Caffyn <br /> George R.Costa Judy M Miffs_ <br /> Peter X Dinizio <br />