EPA Raises Concerns About Mega-Mall/Business Complex Plan for Former Naval Facility

WEYMOUTH, MA-In a blow to a proposed mega-mall/business complex for the shuttered Weymouth Naval Air Station, the US Environmental Protection Agency has expressed strong reservations about the impact of the project on the surrounding communities.

“We remain concerned that full implementation of the plan without effective mitigation will cause significant adverse environmental impacts,” the EPA’s New England regional administrator John P. DeVillars wrote in a letter to Robert K. Ostermueller of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Lester, PA. “The goals of the final reuse plan should only be pursued if they can be obtained without sacrificing environmental quality and the well-being of those who live and work in the host communities and the region at large.”