2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 28 Sep 2007 04:58:13 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station (NJ) encroachment
 
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
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