2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:31:32 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) regional Army training base
 
Middletown Residents Say Proposed Army Base Site Isn't Suitable

By JOSH KOVNER
Hartford Courant (CT)
July 17, 2008

MIDDLETOWN —

An overflow crowd of Westfield residents who oppose a regional Army training base in their neighborhood found a receptive audience among common council members Wednesday, but comments from Army officials indicated they have a battle on their hands.

Todd Hornback, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville, Ky., said in a telephone interview that the agency knows of the concerns about traffic, flooding and a possible economic burden from the training base slated for Middle Street and Boardman Lane, near the Cromwell border.

He said the Corps would do everything it could to minimize the impact of the base on the neighborhood. The base would be a 35-acre, 273,000-square-foot complex on an 88-acre site. The base would employ 150 people and host up to 800 citizen soldiers on weekends. It would replace seven Army Reserve and Connecticut National Guard facilities that are closing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/middletown/hc-midcouncil0716.artjul17,0,7503627.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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