[CPEO-IRF] Stratford Engine Plant (CT) a ghost town

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stratford's latest round of base closings proposed by defense officials
are singing a sad but familiar refrain

FRANK WASHKUCH JR.
Connecticut Post 
May 22, 2005

STRATFORD - As far as many town officials are concerned, those howling
in protest over the latest round of base closings proposed by defense
officials are singing a sad but familiar refrain

That's because it's been a decade since Stratford has been singing the
blues after the Army shut down the sprawling tank engine manufacturing
plant on south Main Street. Since then, the once-proud defense complex
has been almost entirely unused, and the town only recently began
negotiating for a so-called "early transfer" of the site to local
control. The 79-acre property, the site of aircraft manufacturing during
World War II and later shifted to making turbine engines for Army tanks,
encompasses nearly 60 buildings

...

Town officials continue to express concern that the levels of
contamination left behind by years of manufacturing on the site will
take years to clean up. They also are frustrated over the lack of
progress in redeveloping the property.

"It's like a ghost town when you come into Lordship by the empty
factory," said Councilwoman Jennifer Hillgen-Santa, R-1, whose district
contains the factory. "It is frustrating for the community because we
still want to see some kind of development there."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_2750539

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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