From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:46:50 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE, PFAS, VOCs: "Dallas [TX] files complaint against U.S. government over former Navy base" |
Dallas files complaint against U.S. government over former Navy base By Tasha Tsiaperas Axios Dallas (TX) August 4, 2023 The City of Dallas is seeking damages from the federal government for failing to clean up environmental contamination at a former Navy airfield the city wants to redevelop for housing. Driving the news: Dallas filed a complaint with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims this week alleging that the federal government breached its contract to clean the groundwater and land the U.S. Navy used for 50 years. • The Navy agreed to clean up the property within 15 years but missed its 2017 deadline. Why it matters: The City Council approved a master plan in December that reimagines the 738-acre plat in southwest Dallas, near the border of Grand Prairie, as a neighborhood with up to 7,000 housing units, 7.5 miles of trails, acres of parkland, and retail space. … For the entire article, see https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2023/08/04/dallas-complaint-us-navy-environment-remediation — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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