[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Concord awaits Navy's decision on weapons station

By Paul Thissen
Contra Costa Times (CA)
February 19, 2010


CONCORD - The swath of hills and grassland expands in all directions 
from the ridge where Michael Wright stands.

He raises his arm toward the horizon, pointing out what could be built 
at the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station — townhouses here, a park 
there, a university campus in that nearly hidden valley.

It's easy to envision while looking at the city's color-coded maps of 
the plan.

But here, for now, the land has different masters. Squirrels scurry 
across the sod roofs of hundreds of padlocked munitions bunkers. Birds 
of prey rest on abandoned power lines. Cattle wander amid the 55 miles 
of rusting railroad tracks.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14435579?nclick_check=1

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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
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