[CPEO-MEF] REUSE - Riverbank Army Ammo Plant (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Riverbank considers 'green' makeover for Army ammo property

By EVE HIGHTOWER
Modesto Bee (CA)
February 27, 2008

RIVERBANK -- From Superfund to super green, city officials are looking 
to flip the Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant's image.

The U.S. Army, which began making munitions there 56 years ago, has been 
working toward cleaning up contamination at the 173-acre site at Claus 
and Claribel roads so it can sell it by 2011.

It's unknown who will take over the park. The Army could donate it to 
the city or sell it to a private company. It could divide the park into 
pieces and sell them as it removes contamination.

Because the industrial park always has been federally owned, this is the 
city's first chance to influence how the land is used. City officials 
have said they intend to keep it zoned industrial.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/223492.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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