[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Buy-outs around Robins Air Force Base (GA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base encroachment mostly fixed in Bibb, moving now in Houston

By MIKE STUCKA
Macon Telegraph (GA)
November 29, 2014 


WARNER ROBINS -- A former mobile home park is a sign of an unusual kind of progress. Just across the street and a set of railroad tracks from Robins Air Force Base, most of the mobile homes are gone, with stairs that used to lead to front doors now leading to nothing.

Some trailers remain on the Walnut Street, with pieces of their aluminum siding stripped off. A shattered television is left outside, among an infant’s car seat, hard hats and pieces of air conditioning ducts that are scattered on the property.

Where dozens of families once lived, none remains. But that’s an indication of progress in the fight against encroachment, where millions of dollars from local, state and federal agencies are being used to buy properties to fix the encroachment problem. Encroachment is expected to be considered a factor in the next round of military base closings.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2014/11/29/3452545_base-encroachment-mostly-fixed.html?rh=1

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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
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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