Rep.: Drop site as landing field possibility

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Rep.: Drop site as landing field possibility
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Apr 24, 2008 5:49:16 EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. — A congressman has asked the Navy to drop a North Carolina site from consideration for a proposed military landing field because of local opposition.

Rep. Walter Jones’ office said Wednesday that the congressman sent a letter to Navy Secretary Donald Winter asking that the Hale’s Lake site in Camden and Currituck counties be dropped.

Jones, a Republican, said local residents opposed the landing field and that locating it there would take valuable farmland out of production. Jones urged the Navy to locate a field at or near property of a Marine Corps air station at Havelock.

The Navy is seeking a site for the field after opposition forced it to give up a site near Plymouth. It is preparing environmental assessments on five possible sites in North Carolina and Virginia.


Article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_landingfield_042308/