[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) reserve training center

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AG To Army: Reject Boardman Lane Site
Don't Build On Environmentally Sensitive Land, Blumenthal Says

WFSB TV-3 News (Hartford, CT)
December 10, 2008


MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- The Army Reserve Training Center cannot be built on 
the Boardman Lane site, or any other environmentally sensitive site in 
Middletown, without permission from state environmental officials, 
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Wednesday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has narrowed its choices to three 
Middletown sites, including Boardman Lane, and is expected to announce 
its final choice before the end of the year. The Corps previously 
suggested that Boardman Lane was its preferred site.

Blumenthal said a full and public environmental review must be conducted 
on any site before the training facility. But, he said, no facility can 
be built on the Boardman Lane site without approval of the Connecticut 
Department of Environmental Protection because it contains sensitive 
wetlands and a potentially historic 18th-century farmhouse.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.wfsb.com/news/18246133/detail.html#-

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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
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