[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Pam Callahan Nature Preserve (Drew Field Range, FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Park near airport closed because of contamination fears

By Howard Altman
Tampa Bay Online (FL)
October 14, 2011

The Pam Callahan Nature Preserve is home to bald eagles, wood storks,  
least terns and the occasional bobcat. The preserve trail, which  
begins on Memorial Drive, is frequented by people from nearby  
apartment complexes, who come for the nature and to walk their dogs  
through the buttonwoods, Florida privets and Christmas berry plants.

But this 150-acre Hillsborough County park, named for the woman who  
fought to keep it from being developed, wasn't always this bucolic.

Between 1940 and 1947, the land was part of a much larger weapons  
test range for Drew Field, now known as Tampa International Airport.


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/oct/14/park-near-tampa- 
airport-closed-because-of-soil-con-ar-272043/

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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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