[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: McGuire Air Force Base (NJ) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Funds will create buffer near base

By Carol Comegno
Cherry Hill Courier-Post (NJ)
August 17, 2009


MOUNT HOLLY - The military has given Burlington County government an 
additional half million dollars toward farmland preservation in order to 
create a wider buffer zone around a joint military base.
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Meanwhile, Ocean County is poised to partner with the Department of 
Defense to preserve more than 200 acres of open space in the area of 
Joint Base McGuire-Fort Dix-Lakehurst.

The two counties are cooperating in a joint land-use study with 
municipalities that border the bases and with the federal government. 
The early findings of that study identified land preservation as key to 
the two-mile Military Installation Buffer Zone for the bases to prevent 
local encroachment on military operations.

Burlington County has long been preserving open space and farmland 
around the Army post of Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base. More than 
7,000 acres on 68 farms have been saved.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090817/NEWS01/908170340/1006/news01/Funds-will-create-buffer-near-base

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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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