[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Housing relocation near Ellsworth Air Force Base (SD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ellsworth authority buys Box Elder land for relocation

Barbara Soderlin
Rapid City Journal (SD)
July 28, 2010

The South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority will use 230 acres of 
Box Elder land it purchased Wednesday at auction to build new homes for 
hundreds of residents of mobile home parks now in areas considered 
unsafe because of the noise and risk of crashes associated with 
Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Using a South Dakota Housing Development Authority grant, the Ellsworth 
authority had the high bid of $574,500, or $2,500 per acre, on land 
owned by the Etta Mae Bateman Family Trust. The authority also will need 
to pay $250,000 to the City of Box Elder for the cost of water to the 
property, put in place for an earlier, failed development on the land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_91ebb55c-9a8b-11df-b5a3-001cc4c002e0.html

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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
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