[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Chanute [Air Force Base, IL] series: Getting former base area 'untangled' has been a job"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chanute series: Getting former base area 'untangled' has been a job

by Tim Evans
Rantoul Press (IL)
October 29, 2013

If someone writes another history book on Rantoul, there is likely  
going to be a chapter devoted to one community leader that "saved"  
the community.

When Bruce Sandahl was hired as village administrator in 2008, he  
assumed a lot of things had been done in cleaning up the former  
Chanute Air Force Base that shut down in 1993.

"Unfortunately, what I found was very little had been done," he said.  
"There wasn't anyone really pushing the Air Force to get that  
property cleaned up or property transferred."

Sandahl had a lot of work to do, contacts to be made, records to be  
sifted through. What he found was a $68 million liability, something  
he knew wasn’t going to fit into Rantoul’s $7 million annual budget.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rantoulpress.com/news/living/2013-10-29/chanute-series- 
getting-former-base-area-untangled-has-been-job.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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