[CPEO-MEF] Residents don't want new landfill at Sunflower plant

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KANSAS CITY STAR
Residents don't want new landfill at Sunflower plant
Army should drop landfill plans at Sunflower plant
June 28, 2003

Pardon Johnson Countians if they aren't thrilled about the possibility
of a new landfill at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. The
Army should pull the plug on this idea, which the county opposes because
it would endanger future uses of the site.

The county's master plan calls for large parks, housing, businesses and
schools on the 9,000-acre site, which already contains four small
landfills. The plan does not contain any new landfill.

But the county does not control whether that proposed landfill can be
placed on what is still federal property.

County officials recently learned that the Army was paying for a
feasibility study regarding a 12-acre landfill it may build there. The
report is due in August.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/opinion/6186878.htm

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