[CPEO-IRF] Willow Grove (PA) air station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Somehow the Navy and Marines managed to locate many of their air 
stations in suburbs where there have been major debates about whether 
they should continue as airfields after closure. The Willow Grove debate 
follows in the tradition of Glenview (IL), Moffett and El Toro (CA), 
South Weymouth (MA), and Barbers Point (HI). - LS]


The base is back

By: JACOB FENTON
The Intelligencer (PA)
April 14, 2007

After nearly two years of watching the Willow Grove Naval Air Station 
Joint Reserve Base march toward closure, supporters of the base and its 
units won a major victory Friday.

In a dramatic turnaround, the U.S. Air Force said it will help turn the 
base in Horsham into a state-run facility with military and civilian 
security agencies supporting missions overseas and at home.

The Air Force agreed to a state request that will have the military 
branch take control of land the Navy is leaving in 2011, lease it and 
ultimately transfer it to Pennsylvania, U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael 
Wynne said in a letter released Friday.

That request for nearly 900 acres is a much larger request than the 17 
acres the Air Force said it wanted at the base last spring.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-04142007-1330368.html

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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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