[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Camp McQuaide (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

National Guard to inspect old Camp McQuaide site
New Brighton Middle School sits on piece of Capitola history

By TOVIN LAPAN
Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
August 9, 2011

CAPITOLA - In 1928 Capitola residents, channeling their best "not in  
my backyard" attitudes, protested against military training at Camp  
McQuaide, where New Brighton Middle School, a small park and homes  
stand today.

Local residents complained the large artillery guns the National  
Guard's 250th Coastal Artillery Regiment used for practice for two  
weeks every year caused erosion on the cliffs and disturbed their  
chickens, preventing them from laying eggs,

That history came up recently when the California Army National Guard  
announced it would be inspecting former sites where munitions  
exercises took place.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_18648399

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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