[CPEO-MEF] Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station (NJ) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy working to augment base's buffer

Meeting with neighbors over increase in flights

BY KIRK MOORE
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
September 24, 2007


LAKEHURST - The merger of New Jersey's biggest military bases and an 
influx of additional aircraft means air traffic around Lakehurst Naval 
Air Engineering Station will increase ten-fold, from 8,000 flights 
annually to 80,000 within a few years, according to Navy planners.

In recent weeks, they've been on an informal campaign to meet with their 
civilian counterparts in surrounding communities, seeking a synchronized 
vision of how land around Navy Lakehurst should be used in the coming 
years, to minimize the impact of aircraft noise and potential 
conflicting uses.

For the first time, the Navy is partnering with the state Green Acres 
program to obtain a conservation easement on the Jeffrey's Branch 
cranberry bogs, on the southern boundary of the base, to ensure that any 
future development is kept away from the fence, said Dennis Blazak, 
chief environmental engineer at the Navy base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070924/NEWS/709240346/1070/NEWS02

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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