[CPEO-MEF] Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD) buffer zone

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Preserves a Testing Ground by Saving a Farm

By Stephen Barr
Washington Post
March 19, 2007

By Pentagon standards, it's a relatively small deal. But senior Defense 
Department officials see it as hugely important.

The department is spending $1.4 million to protect 163.5 acres of 
farmland in northeastern Maryland from new-home construction, preserving 
a scenic habitat so that tanks and Humvees can keep roaring around the 
Army's off-road test course nearby.

By using the farmland as a buffer zone, the Army will not have to worry 
about urban encroachment disrupting training and testing that has gone 
on at the Army's Churchville Test Area, a part of the Aberdeen Proving 
Ground, for 65 years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801276.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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