[CPEO-IRF] Navy proposed to demolish Moffett Field's (CA) Hangar One

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy study to urge razing Moffett Field's Hangar One
PRESERVATIONISTS UPSET BY RECOMMENDATION FOR CONTAMINATED BUILDING THAT 
DATES TO 1933

By Joshua Sabatini
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
May 1, 2006

A Navy study due out Friday will recommend demolishing the historic 
Hangar One at Moffett Field in Mountain View, the agency announced in a 
newspaper advertisement.

"It's totally unacceptable," said Lenny Siegel, founder of the Save 
Hangar One Committee. "The hangar is irreplaceable. There ought to be a 
way to save it without all the hazardous substance built into it."

Hangar One -- built in 1933 to house the airship U.S.S. Macon -- was 
found to be contaminated with lead, asbestos and PCBs in the late 1990s. 
The Navy is responsible for cleaning up Moffett Field, which once was a 
Naval Air Station. NASA Ames Research Center now occupies the land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14471378.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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