Massachusetts Military Reservation - Non-military Tenants

Non-military Tenants

• American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO Local 3004
• American Red Cross / Cape Cod & Islands Chapter
  • MMR Resource Center
• Barnstable County Correctional Facility and Sheriff's Office
• Cape Cod Collaborative
  • The Collaborative provides special education for students in 18 member districts on Cape Cod including the medically challenged and those needing occupational, speech and physical therapy. Its Transportation Division, Alternative Education Program, and Center for Executive Search are headquartered at MMR in school facilities formerly administered and operated by the Town of Bourne.
• Elder Services of Cape Cod & The Islands
  • Senior Environment Corps (Assists other base tenants on various environmental projects at the MMR, including air & water quality, energy & resource conservation, wildlife monitoring and mosquito control.)
• Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center
• Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
  • Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
    • Cape Cod Mosquito Control Program
  • Massachusetts Environmental Management Commission
    • Monitors military and other activities in the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve in the northern 15,000 acres of MMR. The purpose of the commission is to ensure the permanent protection of the drinking water supply and wildlife habitat on the reserve.
• Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety & Security
  • Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
    • A portion of Camp Edwards is designated by MEMA as a Massachusetts Disaster Preparedness Shelter. Under emergency declarations affecting the Cape Cod & Islands region, buildings and barracks will be staffed by personnel from the American Red Cross, the Medical Response Team (MRC), the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and the State Animal Response Team (SMART).
  • Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Southeast Region
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy
  • Boat Donation Program (Academy cadets, students and faculty refurbish donated vessels for annual sale, with proceeds benefiting the academy's various camp, educational, scholarship and training programs. Vessels under repair are stored at Camp Edwards)
• National Air Traffic Controllers Association
• NSTAR Electric / Bourne Switching Station
  • Through an easement, NSTAR maintains a transmission substation at the northern end of the base, which receives power lines from across the Cape Cod Canal and serves as a hub for all other power lines servicing the Cape and Islands.
• Otis Fish & Game Club
  • Works with Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife to coordinate annual controlled deer and turkey hunts within MMR boundary.
• Otis Memorial Elementary School
  • Operated by Town of Bourne to serve families of US Coast Guard servicemen and servicewomen residing on the base.
• US Department of Agriculture / Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST) & Plant Protection Quarantine (PPQ)
    • Pest Survey Detection and Exclusion Laboratory
• US Department of Transportation
  • Federal Aviation Administration / Otis Approach Control
    • Provides normal VFR Radar Advisory as well as Radar Overwater Flight Following Service for aircraft traversing the Cape Cod and islands area
  • Research and Special Programs Administration
    • Otis Weather Test Facility (operated by the USDOT's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center)
• US Geological Survey
  • Cape Cod Toxic Substances Hydrology Research Site
• Upper Cape Regional Transfer Station
  • Receives municipal waste shipments via truck from the towns of Falmouth, Mashpee & Sandwich and consolidates them as railroad freight for transfer to the SEMASS waste-to-energy facility in Rochester, Massachusetts.
• Upper Cape Regional Water Cooperative
  • Supplies drinking water to the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee & Sandwich.