[CPEO-IRF] Army Reserve Complex at Moffett Military Housing (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army: No review of complex needed

Toxic groundwater remains concern for Moffett Field

By Jason Green
Palo Alto Daily News (CA)
July 16, 2007

These days, rusting swing sets and a palpable sense of emptiness define 
Moffett Field's Orion Park, where the only sign of life is the 
occasional jackrabbit. But if the Army gets its way, the site that 
housed military families for nearly four decades will soon be reborn as 
a massive Armed Forces Reserve Center complex.

Plans for the 270,000-square-foot installation are sketched out in an 
environmental assessment quietly released by the Army late last week.

The Army's 200-plus page report, which will be open to public review 
until Aug. 12, concludes that the project does not require an additional 
environmental impact statement because its environmental and 
socioeconomic effects are negligible, despite the presence of a 
well-documented plume of toxic groundwater percolating beneath the 
30-acre site located east of the NASA Ames Research Center.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-7-16-mv-army-center
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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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