2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 4 Apr 2004 00:08:17 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Roosevelt Roads (PR) Closure
 
Roosevelt Roads' Closure Worries Locals

Thousands who relied on the Puerto Rican base for their livelihoods fear
the future.

By Ray Quintanilla
Orlando Sentinel
March 31, 2004

CEIBA, Puerto Rico -- Today's swift closing of Roosevelt Roads Naval
Station -- once one of the largest U.S. Navy facilities in the world --
is leaving thousands of people struggling to find jobs and local
officials with little more than questions about the future.

All they know for certain: After today Roosevelt Roads is no more. Left
behind is a deep-water harbor surrounded by 8,600 acres of land, part of
which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is polluted with a
brew of dangerous chemicals from six decades of military use.

Gone are the 3,000 active-duty sailors and 3,850 civilian jobs -- along
with about $250 million a year that the base pumped into the local economy.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/orl-asecroosevelt31033104mar31,0,3870257.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean




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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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