[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Badger Ammo Plant (WI) land transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds donate portion of ammo site to state

By Associated Press
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
July 9, 2010

Madison - Federal officials have handed over nearly 2,000 acres of land 
at an abandoned World War II-era ammunition plant to the state.

Gov. Jim Doyle's office says the National Parks Service gave the land to 
the state free of charge. Doyle says the state is in line to get another 
1,500 acres at the plant when the U.S. Army completes contamination 
clean-up.

The governor says the land will be used to create the Sauk Prairie 
Recreation Area, connecting Devil's Lake State Park to the Wisconsin River.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/98113134.html

See also
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/97827574.html


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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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