[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Kaman helicopter plant, Bloomfield, CT

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy To Give Helicopter Hangar, Factory To Kaman Aerospace

By KIM MARTINEAU
Hartford Courant (CT)
June 4, 2008

The Navy is giving away a helicopter hangar and factory in Bloomfield to 
its longtime tenant, military subcontractor Kaman Aerospace. In 
exchange, the company has promised to remove toxic pollution that has 
been stewing below ground for decades.

The estimated cleanup tab: $9 million.

Kaman Corp., in the deal, would gain ownership of the 85-acre property 
where Charles Kaman began operating a large plant just a few years after 
he founded the company in West Hartford.

Before the public land can trade hands, a federal judge must approve the 
deal, expected sometime this summer. After that, Kaman has two years to 
put together a plan for removing the pollutants, mainly degreasing 
solvents and chromium used in the metal finishing process, that over 
decades have seeped into the watershed surrounding Mill and Beaman's brook.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-kaman0604.artjun04,0,3933314.story

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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
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