[CPEO-IRF] Stratford (CT) plant tour

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army engine plant tour wows visitors

RICHARD WEIZEL
Connecticut Post
March 4, 2007

STRATFORD - Zoning Commissioner Christopher Silhavey has lived in 
Stratford his entire life, but until Saturday had never crossed the 
locked gates to walk the grounds of the sprawling former Army Engine 
Plant on Main Street.

After he had, Silhavey said he was stunned by what he saw.

There was the eerily quiet and somber "Building Two" of nearly 1 million 
square feet with dozens of long, high concrete columns to the ceiling, 
where thousands of workers once built warplanes and aircraft engines 
during World War II.

There were the ancient-looking, metallic military buildings of all 
shapes, sizes and colors, with large ominous signs that warned "Danger, 
Do Not Enter," appearing like some kind of science fiction movie set.

Then, in stark contrast, there was the 1,000-foot long causeway of dirt 
and grass on the Housatonic River, originally built in the 1920s by Igor 
Sikorsky, who used the strip for takeoffs and landings of flying boats 
and water planes built at the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5354148

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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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