[CPEO-MEF] Crow's Landing (CA) transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County sees great things in old air base 

By JOEL HOOD
MODESTO BEE (CA)
November 10, 2004

CROWS LANDING - The sewage system is shot. The lighting fixtures have
been torn down. The runways are cracked and worn.

But Stanislaus County officials could hardly contain their glee Tuesday
at the title transfer ceremony for the old Crows Landing Naval Air
Station a few miles south of Patterson.

"The West Side is going to be the engine of opportunity, and this air
base will be the cornerstone," Supervisor-elect Jim DeMartini said. "I'm
anxious to get started. This is where it's going to be at for Stanislaus County."

Nestled between drying tomato and broccoli fields, the 1,528-acre air
station served as a training site for the Navy during World War II. In
subsequent years, it was used for touch-and-go flight operations and
paratroop practice. In 1994, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration took control of the facility for research and development....

For the entire article, see
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9407595p-10316089c.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>
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