[CPEO-BIF] Calamityville project, Fairborn, Ohio

[lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)]

Planners consider sites for 'Calamityville' facilty
Cement plant's existing silos and tunnels are perfect for disaster 
training center, planners say.


By Christopher Magan
Dayton Daily News
January 25, 2009

FAIRBORN - Wright State University doctors are confident about where 
they want to build a multimillion-dollar disaster training facility, but 
a Riverside official is confident he can offer a better deal.

The idea for Calamityville, a training ground for first responders 
proposed for a brownfield in Fairborn, was partly born at the Riverside 
fire department, said Riverside City Manager Bryan Chodkowski.

The first site proposed for the project was the Dinas property in the 
northwest part of Riverside - a former gravel quarry transformed into a 
landfill of debris from Xenia after the tornado of 1974.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/25/ddn012509calamityvilleinside.html

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