[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) regional Army training base

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Middletown Residents Say Proposed Army Base Site Isn't Suitable

By JOSH KOVNER
Hartford Courant (CT)
July 17, 2008

MIDDLETOWN —

An overflow crowd of Westfield residents who oppose a regional Army 
training base in their neighborhood found a receptive audience among 
common council members Wednesday, but comments from Army officials 
indicated they have a battle on their hands.

Todd Hornback, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in 
Louisville, Ky., said in a telephone interview that the agency knows of 
the concerns about traffic, flooding and a possible economic burden from 
the training base slated for Middle Street and Boardman Lane, near the 
Cromwell border.

He said the Corps would do everything it could to minimize the impact of 
the base on the neighborhood. The base would be a 35-acre, 
273,000-square-foot complex on an 88-acre site. The base would employ 
150 people and host up to 800 citizen soldiers on weekends. It would 
replace seven Army Reserve and Connecticut National Guard facilities 
that are closing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/middletown/hc-midcouncil0716.artjul17,0,7503627.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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