Dover AFB and birds

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Kent waste facility files relocation plan
Bird hazard fears for DAFB allayed 

By JAMES MERRIWEATHER
The News Journal (DE)
June 15, 2004

Owners of a municipal waste transfer station near Dover Air Force Base
have filed plans to move the facility, ending what military officials
have fought for two years as a potentially deadly bird hazard. 

Kent County Levy Court President David R. Burris, R-Wyoming, disclosed
the plans Monday to about 200 government and civic leaders gathered for
an annual base construction briefing. Levy Court, he said, is expected
to act next month on an application to clear the way for the move. 

Marc Shaener, vice president of Eastern Shore Environmental, said later
that the facility would be moved from its current location off Postles
Corner Road to a seven-acre site near the Kent County Wastewater
Treatment Plant outside Frederica. 

He said several studies had demonstrated that the transfer station does
not pose a bird hazard for planes landing at and departing from the
base. But during negotiations with state, local and Air Force officials,
it became clear that moving the facility was the best solution for all,
he said. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/06/15kentwast efacili.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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