2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 5 Jul 2007 17:12:27 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Radar and windmill at Otis Air Base (MA)
 
Base windmill hinges on radar analysis

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
July 4, 2007

OTIS AIR BASE - Plans to build a wind turbine at the base are on hold until officials figure out whether a turbine would interfere with the Air Force's PAVE PAWS radar station in Sagamore.

Last month, the Missile Defense Agency issued a report that found a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound would not interfere with the Air Force's missile-tracking radar because the turbines would be built outside of a 25-kilometer buffer around the Sagamore radar.

But a planned Air Force turbine falls within that zone.

The Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, which runs a cleanup program at Otis, planned to build a turbine that would provide electricity to a groundwater cleanup facility.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070704/NEWS/707040315/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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