[CPEO-MEF] HABITAT, CHEMWEAPONS: Newport Chemical Depot Prairie: Can a Success Story be Saved?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Newport Chemical Depot Prairie: Can a Success Story be Saved?

by Lenny Siegel
June, 2011

The 7,000-acre Newport Chemical Depot, nestled in western Indiana's  
Wabash Valley, is about to be returned to civilian use. The former  
home of the U.S. Army’s production program for VX nerve agent, it is  
slated for transfer to a Vermillion County-sponsored Local Reuse  
Authority sometime this year. Local residents and official are now  
debating how the former ammunition plant can best provide some of the  
prairie habitat that once characterized much of this portion of the  
country.

To download the 3.1 MB, 5 page PDF, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/NewportPrairie.pdf


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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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