[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Former Almaden Air Force Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rep. Mike Honda sees movement toward park on Mount Umunhum

By Paul Rogers
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
March 28, 2009

After more than 22 years of bureaucratic inaction, efforts to clean up a 
former Air Force radar station on a scenic mountaintop above Silicon 
Valley and open its summit to hikers, bicyclists and picnickers may be 
finally gathering momentum, locally and in Washington, D.C.

"It feels like all the pieces are coming together and that it's going to 
happen this time," said Rep. Mike Honda, D-Campbell. "Why should only 
rich people have a view? It should be available to everybody."

At issue is the former Almaden Air Force Station, which operated from 
1957 to 1980 on the top of Mount Umunhum. Named for the Ohlone Indian 
word for hummingbird, the 3,486-foot peak towers above South San Jose 
and Los Gatos on the chaparral ridges between Lexington Reservoir and 
Almaden Quicksilver County Park. But it remains off limits because 88 
buildings where Air Force crew members and their families lived and 
worked sit abandoned — a crumbling ghost town contaminated with asbestos 
and lead paint.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12018630?nclick_check=1#

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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>
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