[CPEO-IRF] Indiana Ammo Plant - "River Ridge

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Funding is key to River Ridge's north end

By LARRY THOMAS
New Albany Tribune (IN)
August 7, 2007

Charlestown Mayor Mike Hall wants to expedite the development of his 
city's end of the River Ridge Commerce Center, but it could cost the 
U.S. Army as much as $55 million to decontaminate the area and raze 350 
deteriorating buildings there.

"I keep asking, 'What's the long-range plan? What's on paper? When are 
we going to start developing this end,'" said Hall, who personally 
represents Charlestown on the River Ridge Development Authority, the 
board that governs the nearly 6,000-acre industrial park.

Marc Elliott, River Ridge's executive director, recently returned from 
the Association of Defense Communities' annual conference in Miami. 
Elliott said the cleanup of abandoned military bases such as the former 
Indiana Army Ammunition Plant is an ongoing topic with association 
members, but that funding is tight because of the wars in Afghanistan 
and Iraq.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-tribune.net/local/local_story_219113333.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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