[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, HABITAT: Newport Chemical Depot (IN) tallgrass prairie

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The Army spent taxpayer money conducting an award-winning prairie 
restoration at Indiana's Newport Chemical Depot. Now, with transfer and 
reuse, there is a chance that most of the restored prairie will be 
destroyed. - LS]


Society aims to preserve Newport Depot tallgrass prairie
336 acres of tallgrass land was restored by Army

Howard Greninger
Terre Haute Tribune-Star (IN)
December 15, 2010

NEWPORT - Several groups advocating the preservation of the largest 
contiguous black-soil restored tallgrass prairie in Indiana say their 
concerns have fallen on deaf ears and now hope the U.S. Army will take 
action.

The Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority voted in November 2009 to 
adopt a plan on how best to use 11 square miles at the former Army 
weapons facility that once produced and stored VX nerve agent in 
Vermillion County. The Army is expected to turn over the property to the 
Reuse Authority next year, pending final reviews.

However, Phillip W. Cox, conservation chair for the Wabash Valley 
Audubon Society, said the reuse plan would destroy all but about 44 
acres of the restored black-soil tallgrass prairie, with the rest used 
for row crop agriculture or designated for future business development.


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For the entire article, see
http://tribstar.com/news/x1168754094/Society-aims-to-preserve-Newport-Depot-tallgrass-prairie

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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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