[CPEO-IRF] Engineer Proving Ground, Ft. Belvoir (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Still Going Nowhere Fast
Even with thousands of jobs proposed to move to the Engineer Proving 
Ground, no clear plan is in sight for completion of the Fairfax County 
Parkway.

By Amber Healy
Springfield Connection (VA)
August 10, 2006


The Army wants to put 18,000 people to work on the Engineer Proving 
Ground in Springfield, according to a recommendation released nearly two 
weeks ago.

There is just one tiny question that remains unanswered: How are these 
people going to get to work on the EPG if the Fairfax County Parkway 
isn’t finished?

The parkway, which currently ends at the Franconia-Springfield Parkway 
and picks up again between Backlick Road and Route 1, is designed to be 
extended through the EPG. In fact, a blue Fairfax County Department of 
Transportation sign on Rolling Road proclaims the road's future 
alignment, just south of a small, gray iron sign with the letters “EPG” 
and an arrow pointing to the facility.

However, despite the announcement of thousands of jobs being moved to 
the site, there is still no definite plan to finish the road.

...

For several years, the Army and the Virginia Department of 
Transportation have been struggling to reach an agreement as to who will 
build the road through the EPG, an 800-acre stretch of land where the 
Army used to train engineers. However, one site on the facility, known 
as M-26, was found to be contaminated from an oil spill, and the 
Environmental Protection Agency has not yet cleared it as safe for 
construction.

According to Bob Greaves, chief of the correction action program for the 
Environmental Protection Agency, one of the three contaminated sites, 
M-26, was cleared of contamination as of June 2006. Two other sites, one 
called M-27 and another, an old tank depository that was only found in 
January, are still considered polluted with gasoline.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=69802&paper=72&cat=104

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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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