[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Ft. Slocum, David's Island (NY) - "ahead of schedule"

[Lenny Siegel]

Ft. Slocum a memory as cleanup nears end

Aman Ali
Lower Hudson Journal News (NY)
December 29, 2008

NEW ROCHELLE - A quick boat ride across Long Island Sound leads to 
Davids Island, the home of Fort Slocum, a former military base from the 
Civil War until the 1960s. In the decades since, the uninhabited island 
possessed a ghost-like quality chock-full of military history.

"We used to call that place 'paradise 8 feet above sea level,' " said 
Michael Cavanaugh, a Los Angeles resident who grew up on the island. 
"Many people I've talked to who used to live there wish they could go 
back and relive their memories there."

But now that won't be possible. The Army Corps of Engineers is close to 
finishing the entire cleanup of the island, leaving little to no 
physical remnants of the historic military base.

Spearheaded by Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Harrison, in 2004, the city requested 
that the Corps of Engineers demolish the military base because it could 
not afford the costly alternative of preserving it. The Corps of 
Engineers began the cleanup in 2005 and will be finished next month, 
almost four years ahead of schedule.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lohud.com/article/2008812290332

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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