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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concord Naval Weapons Station sitting on pile of recycled gold

By David DeBolt
Contra Costa Times (CA)
August 30, 2012

CONCORD -- Officials and planners have described the Concord Naval  
Weapons Station as a "reuse" of the land. The blueprints call for  
transforming the more than 5,000 acres of military-owned property --  
with its barbed-wire fences and ammunition bunkers emerging from the  
rolling land -- into a suburban community of homes, shops and  
schools, with a population more than twice the size of nearby Clayton.

But the term "reuse" also has another application here. The concrete  
from the bunkers is to be ground up and used as a base for the  
neighborhood's new roads. Steel from the buildings and miles of rails  
from the train tracks linking all those bunkers will be recycled to  
help pay for part of the massive project.

And a set of stained-glass windows commemorating the victims of the  
horrific Port Chicago explosion is being preserved for a public  
memorial.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_21436001/concord-naval-weapons- 
station-sitting-pile-recycled-gold

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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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