2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Another Charleston Air Force Base (SC) transfer
 
North Charleston set to acquire 16 acres

Property to be used for public works site

BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
July 29, 2011
North Charleston set to acquire 16 acres

Property to be used for public works site

BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
July 29, 2011

North Charleston is poised to acquire nearly 16 acres of land that once was used by the Air Force.

The property, off Interstate 26 and Aviation Avenue near the Charleston Animal Society headquarters, is being transferred from the federal government without cost, as long as the city agrees to use the land for municipal purposes and to participate in any environmental cleanup.

The city's cleanup cost won't exceed $500,000, and will have to pay for monitoring and other testing after the site is cleared.

The 16 acres is adjacent to 37 acres the city already received from the federal government after the Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard complex closed in the 1990s.

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