[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, BIOTA: Caddo Lake Refuge @ Longhorn Ammo Plant (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fish and Wildlife and Army are working on Caddo refuge agreement


Terri Richardson
Marshall News Messenger (TX)
June 17, 2010

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S Army are negotiating an 
agreement for the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge to take 
administrative control of unpolluted surface areas following last 
Friday's Restoration Advisory Board meeting, said refuge manager Mark 
Williams.

"We found some common grounds, and we think we might be able to move 
forward on some kind of agreement where the Fish and Wildlife Service 
takes over administrative control the surface area of about 1,400 acres 
with the Army focusing on the (polluted) groundwater," said Williams.

Central to a May 20, community meeting over the future of plans for 
transfer of additional acreage from the Army to the Caddo Lake National 
Wildlife Refuge was present-day use of the refuge for recreation.

Another issue raised by the public during that meeting was the 
possibility of the Army transferring the remaining portions of the 
former plant to a third party, complete with water rights for up to 20 
acre-feet of Caddo Lake, which is recognized as Ramsar wetland of 
international importance.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/article_245c3b8c-7a11-11df-b4f3-001cc4c002e0.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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