[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Midlands Area Joint Installation Consortium, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Consortium eyes land near military bases

Group wants buffers around Fort Jackson, Shaw, McEntire

By CHUCK CRUMBO
The State (SC)
February 9, 2009

A swept-wing F-16 fighter takes off from a runway at Shaw Air Force Base 
as 27,000 pounds of thrust push through the plane’s single jet engine, 
creating a thunderous roar.

The walls of a furniture store near the Sumter base shake, and the 
windows rattle. Inside the building, conversations stop as people wait 
for the noise to fade.

When it opened in 1941 as a basic training base for military pilots, the 
base was - as folks say - out in the country.

But today Shaw, like other military installations in South Carolina, has 
convenience stores, restaurants and small subdivisions for neighbors.

To limit development around Shaw and other bases, local and state 
officials and members of the military have formed the Midlands Area 
Joint Installation Consortium.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/678773.html

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