2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 31 Jul 2006 02:07:49 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Homestead Air Force Base (FL)
 
HOMESTEAD
Cleanup project reaches the end
After 13 years of environmental cleanup at the former Homestead Air Force Base, the Air Force is ready to hand over the last section of a 601-acre land parcel to the county.


BY EMILY YEHLE
Miami Herald (FL)
July 30, 2006

With the completion of an environmental cleanup, the last 24 of 601 acres at the former Homestead Air Force Base soon will be transferred to Miami-Dade County, ending a 13-year struggle to put the land to some public use.

The journey has been marked by political controversy, public protest and lots of bureaucracy.

Most of the former base was once earmarked for a controversial airport that would have hosted 150,000 commercial flights a day. That plan died in 2001 amid pollution concerns for nearby Everglades National Park, forcing Miami-Dade County to propose more environmentally friendly development.

But before the Air Force could turn over the land, a slew of agencies had to deem it environmentally safe. That meant the removal of underground fuel tanks and chemical spills, accomplished after piecemeal approval from differing bureaucracies.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/miami-dade/cities_neighborhoods/pinecrest/15150975.htm
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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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