[CPEO-IRF] Warminster (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Once again, the adage "Once an airport, always an airport" proves 
false. Naval airfields, in particular, tend to be located in suburban 
areas which usually do not need or want civilian airports. - LS]


Warminster past may shed light on Horsham's future

By: JACOB FENTON
Lansdale Reporter (PA)
October 9, 2005

WARMINSTER - Weeds are growing between cracks in a runway that was once 
a part of the Naval Air Warfare Center at Warminster.

Roughly a decade ago, Warminster was up to its teeth in a losing fight 
to save the base, a situation similar to the one that Willow Grove Naval 
Air Station Joint Reserve Base backers face now.

In August, the BRAC Commission unanimously voted to close the Willow 
Grove base in Horsham.

And like Horsham, Warminster and adjacent municipalities had no desire 
to see the military runway turned into a civilian airport.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, which contracts with 
the Federal Aviation Administration to provide airport planning for the 
region, has proposed using Willow Grove for corporate jets. Doing so, 
DVRPC officials have said, would help relieve pressure from Philadelphia 
International Airport, which is already one of the most congested in the 
country.

But less than nine years after what the military terms its "operational 
closure," the runway and land surrounding it at Warminster has been 
converted into a massive park.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thereporteronline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15356549&BRD=2275&PAG=461&dept_id=466404&rfi=6
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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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