[CPEO-MEF] Washington County (NC) vs. Navy jet field

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents oppose plan for jet field
In N.C. community, some fear disruption of wildlife, way of life

BY BILL GEROUX
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH (VA)
February 9, 2006

PLYMOUTH, N.C. -- The Navy wants to build a practice field for F/A-18 
Super Hornet jets in remote Washington County chiefly because it is 
nothing like the jets' hometown of Virginia Beach.

The county, located on a peninsula jutting into Albemarle and Pamlico 
sounds, is free of suburban sprawl, and even of suburbs. It is a poor, 
sparsely populated farming community, dotted with hamlets bearing names 
like Wenona and Scuppernong, and dominated by the swampy Pocosin Lakes 
National Wildlife Refuge.

The nights are so dark there, the Navy says, that pilots could 
realistically simulate night landings on aircraft carriers in the middle 
of the ocean.

But for all its remoteness, Washington County has a distinctive rhythm 
of life, which is stubbornly resisting the Navy's efforts to alter it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137833965046

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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