[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Fort Ord (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Ord slowly morphs into space for recreation, learning
Complicated effort under way to clean up toxins, explosives left by infantry

By Leslie Griffy
Salinas Californian
September 26, 2009


FORT ORD - Evening fog rolls along the coast, past red, green and orange 
ice plant clinging to sandy hillsides at the former Fort Ord.
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For years, the state's newest park was nothing but a dream.

But when the U.S. Army 7th Infantry left the fort 15 years ago this week 
as part of a national base-closing effort, things began to fall into place.

The move cut 17,000 military and civilian jobs from the area's economy 
but opened up more than 28,000 acres to new possibilities.

Today, California State University, Monterey Bay educates more than 
4,000 students there. Big-box stores bustle with shoppers at the western 
end of Imjin Parkway, a four-lane thoroughfare that was once the 
two-lane 12th Street. A couple take an evening stroll through the Fort 
Ord Dunes State Park, which opened in March.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20090926/NEWS01/909260306/1002/NEWS01/Fort-Ord-slowly-morphs-into-space-for-recreation--learning

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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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