[CPEO-MEF] Bogue Field (NC) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cherry Point $1.1M closer to land purchase
Mariner's Bay, next to Bogue Field, would be used for flight training

SUE BOOK
NEW BERN SUN JOURNAL (NC)
November 15, 2006

Score a mini-victory for Cherry Point flight training.

The North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund agreed Monday to 
put $1.1 million toward purchasing a 12.1 acre coastal tract which 
Marines think is important to military aircraft operations.

Members agreed to let the Coastal Land Trust use part of $3 million 
already allocated for protecting Cherry Point to help buy Mariner's Bay 
property next to Bogue Field.

The auxiliary field is used by Marine aviators, particularly those from 
Cherry Point and New River Air Station, and proposed development of the 
land has been opposed by MCAS Cherry Point and NAVAIR Depot advocacy 
group ACT since July.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=31041&Section=Local

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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