[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Riverbank Ammo Plant (CA) scrap metal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army upset over Riverbank scrap metal sales

By Kevin Valine
Modesto Bee (CA)
October 13, 2010

RIVERBANK - The Army Corps of Engineers has whacked the city's knuckles 
after the city removed and sold more than $390,000 in scrap metal from 
the former Army ammunition plant without permission.

City officials acknowledge that they made a mistake.

"We have no problem saying we moved prematurely, and we are doing 
everything to correct it," said Debbie Olson, executive director of the 
Local Redevelopment Authority, the city agency that oversees the former 
ammunition plant.

The city has been leasing the plant from the Army since April 1 at no 
cost and is developing it into an industrial park, with the 
understanding that eventually the Army will turn plant ownership over to 
the city.

The city said it had good intentions when it hired an asset management 
firm to sell surplus Army equipment and scrap metal. Olson said that was 
done to make room for more business tenants at the 173-acre site at 
Claus and Claribel roads.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.modbee.com/2010/10/12/1380833/army-upset-over-sales.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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