[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Ft. Dix (NJ) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ocean County, military to split Plumsted land cost

By KIRK MOORE
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
August 12, 2009



Ocean County and the Department of Defense will split the $980,000 
purchase cost for more than 200 acres of land near the Fort Dix 
perimeter and Long Swamp Road in Plumsted, county Freeholder Director 
John C. Bartlett Jr. said Wednesday.

The purchase of two parcels - 121 acres owned by Albert N. Vera of 
Tuckerton for $280,000 and 99 acres owned by 53 Green Street LLC of New 
York City for $700,000 - is part of a continued joint effort by the 
county and the military to head off future conflicts between military 
missions and civilian land use.

"The purchase helps to minimize future encroachments to base 
operations," Freeholder John P. Kelly said in a prepared statement.

The county and the Navy have been actively cooperating over the past two 
years to acquire open space around Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering 
Station, in preparation for a big expected increase in flight operations 
there. In October three military facilities will be merged as Joint Base 
McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and bring in an influx of additional aircraft 
from the Willow Grove Navy Reserve air station in Pennsylvania and other 
facilities that are being downsized.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/article/20090812/NEWS/90813006/1070/NEWS02

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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
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