[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATURAL RESOURCES: Plum Island (NY) Animal Disease Center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

This is a Homeland Security Department site. - LS


Tour takes in Plum Island's beauty
Environmental groups get closeup look at what they hope to see saved

BY BETH YOUNG
Riverhead News Review (NY)
October 13, 2010

Lab 257 on Plum Island, visible at left, was built as a storage facility 
during World War I and later was used for foot-and-mouth disease 
studies. It was vacated and mothballed in the mid-1990s.

The clock is ticking on the future of Plum Island, and environmental 
advocates have banded together to fight to preserve the 840-acre property.

The island, just east of Orient Point, has been the site of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Plum Island Animal Disease Center since 
1954, though work there has been overseen by the Department of Homeland 
Security since 2003. The federal government last year announced plans to 
sell the island and build a more high-tech animal disease research 
facility in Kansas.

Last Wednesday, Oct. 6, the Department of Homeland Security gave a tour 
of the island to a group of environmentalists.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.riverheadnewsreview.com/news-articles/2162/2162-Plum-Island-New-York-Kansas.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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